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Nissan Uses Singing Socket to Boost EV Sales

Nissan has recently launched a funny promotional video, aiming to celebrate its eco-friendly Leaf. Plug and his friends are sent on a mission to Zero Planet, similar to Earth, but powered entirely by renewables like wind and solar power, Autobloggreen informs. Even though Leaf has managed to capture the attention ...

21 December 2011
07:15 GMT

Cheaper Nissan Leaf Comes with Wireless Charging

Nissan Leaf manufacturers want to make sure a large segment of clients will have new reasons to think about purchasing an eco-friendly electric vehicle. Their smart strategy includes a lower price and a wireless charging option. Before the Tokyo Motor Show, the company has started bragging about its new green techn...

5 December 2011
02:25 GMT

Nissan Makes Electric Cars Recharge in Only 10 Minutes

One of the most significant reasons that makes clients think twice before purchasing an electric vehicle is the fact that it usually takes a long time to recharge it. Because nowadays time is money, Nissan, the company which manufactures all green LEAF vehicles, came up with an effective solution to this issue. T...

21 October 2011
02:30 GMT

All Leaf Shapes May Be Inscribed in a Single Algorithm

Over the billions of years they had at their disposal, plants have evolved into a myriad of types, classes and families, each of them featuring their own unique traits. One of the most marked aspects that helps distinguish between various types of vegetation is the shape of their leaves. Throughout nature, we can obs...

29 April 2010
10:06 GMT

Some Clovers Have Five Leaves or More

Tradition and legend have it that four-leaf clovers bring luck to their finders. You might tend to believe that, but if you happen to find a five-leaf clover, what would be your first thought? According to common superstition, this kind of clover brings even more good luck to the already lucky discoverer, plus a bonu...

31 October 2008
11:25 GMT

5 Amazing Things About the World's Tallest and Largest Trees

1. Gymnosperms dominated the Earth's flora during the Dinosaur Era until the emergence of the flower plants (Angiosperms) during the last period of the dinos' domination. They appeared 300 million years ago and reached the climax of their development 120 million years ago. Still, one group of gymnosperms is...

8 February 2008
10:10 GMT

The Largest Leaves

Plants living in temperate or cold areas use to shed their leaves annually. That's why records of leaf size won't be found amongst them. But if you thought the 6 m (20 ft) long leaf of a banana tree is impressive, what about 20 m (66 ft) long leaves?The largest leaves belong to the raffia palm (Raphia farin...

28 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Why Do Autumn Leaves Have So Many Colors?

Every autumn we look in melancholy at the falling leaves. But before falling, the leaves get yellow and orange with shades of red. But why this diversity in the color of the fallen leaves? The undergraduate research project of Emily Habinck at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, revealed that the color of ...

1 November 2007
04:20 GMT

How to Change Sex for Leaves

Only in science fiction movies a humanoid creature can grow new individuals through its fingers. But the houseplant 'mother of thousands' (Kalanchoe diagremontiana) does it, too: a lot of tiny plantlets develop at the edges of its leaves. "Having lost the ability to make viable seeds, the plant has shifted ...

9 October 2007
03:20 GMT

The Gene of Family Planning

We go to the doctor to have a baby when we decide we want one. And the new techniques also detect the sex of our embryo baby and eventual genetic diseases. But animals cannot appeal to technologies and they still need a way of regularizing their populations. That's especially important in the case of the species...

26 May 2007
04:04 GMT


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