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In many fairy tales ('The Lord of the Rings' included) the heroes wear a cloak or another garment that makes them invincible. A real life version of this could be available due to the Japanese company Nihon Uni, based in Chuo Ward, Osaka, which has developed a shirt that protects its wearer against stabbing... |
26 March 2008
05:33 GMT |
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One day, diseased brains may be cured. And I'm not referring to going to a shrink or taking pills. The sea cucumber skin has been the inspiration for a new material that may treat Parkinson's disease and other damages of the nervous tissue. This material could rapidly change from rigid to flexible and vice ... |
10 March 2008
06:17 GMT |
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The oldest known textiles are some sail pieces, made 7,000 years ago. The first textile fibers used by humans were flax and wool, but today a large array of natural and synthetic fibers are employed. The sheep wool is made of keratin, the same protein found in the nails, horns, feathers, reptilian scales and the uppe... |
21 January 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Chelsio have just unveiled their T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, expected to enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single IBM BladeCenter platform. The device has recently been approved for use with IBM BladeCenter enterprise servers. The new expansion card, code-named S320EM-BCH, is a ... |
15 December 2007
07:40 GMT |
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Living organisms have amazing abilities. Toddlers fall and hit their head, older children fall from trees or bikes, sportsmen experience violent fractures, car drivers experience various accidents and we escape in most cases without much damage being done to our bodies. This mix of strength and resistance on relative... |
1 November 2007
11:25 GMT |
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Like I've said before, nothing in this world is 100% secure, and there is no cable that cannot be tapped. Copper cables are easy to tap into, and some people think that fiber is immune to tapping, but they're wrong - it just requires a procedure which is a bit more complicated. I'm going to bring here ... |
25 September 2007
08:55 GMT |
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There are some things that changed little or not at all since the first compatible x86 computer rolled out the assembly line. Other things change many times with the years, while other simply disappeared and were replaced by other hardware parts and standards.One of the most stable things in the entire computer indus... |
25 July 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Ferrari is a name that needs no further presentation. It's the symbol of sports cars, the car maker than imposed red as official color of any respectable supercar, and it's a dream ride for any car enthusiast in the world.Owning a Ferrari is more than a description of your bank account, it's a stateme... |
30 June 2007
03:50 GMT |
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Optical computers are the dream of nanotechnology researchers. These computers would use light instead of electricity to manipulate, store and transmit data. Photons have fundamentally different physical properties than electrons and researchers have attempted to make use of these properties to produce computers wit... |
25 May 2007
07:36 GMT |
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Research in the field of artificial fibers have boosted in the last years and aim to create new and improved artificial replacements for natural materials that not only have the same properties, but also present artificial enhancements to benefit the clothing industry and other branches.An international science and ... |
22 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Everybody knows that wire tapping is an extremely useful tool for police agencies around the world. Getting a witness or an undercover agent to wear a wire on a meeting with a crime boss is something else.It's very risky for the cop and very easy for the bad guys to find a wire stuck to the body with duct tape.... |
22 May 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Can you feel any relief before you drink your daily cup of coffee?Well, that's not only because of craving for caffeine, but also because coffee helps you ...poop.A new research found that brewed coffee contains soluble dietary fibers, which help the body absorb vital nutrients, keep a lid on cholesterol and mor... |
14 March 2007
04:05 GMT |
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