For years, astronauts working in orbit have been complaining about the fact that they don't have access to glue-like substances that work in the harsh environment of outer space. A team of experts may have just answered that demand recently. The researchers created a new type of adhesive, that features a host of... |
30 March 2011
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) advanced Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was only launched in November 2009, but it's already providing its operators with its first results. In order to ensure that these are the most accurate observations possible, teams on the ground are currently check... |
10 March 2010
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We've been talking about the sun a lot lately, particularly about how best to achieve long-lasting protection from its harmful rays now that summer is here and we're tempted to expose rather a lot of skin by the side of the pools or (for the lucky ones among us) on the beach.However, when we think of sun pr... |
28 May 2008
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A very interesting piece of information to begin with is the fact that, unbeknown to most of us, feet actually have over 250,000 or more sweat glands - which means that when the weather gets hot (like it's happening right now), feet are one of the main doorways used by our body to try and cool itself off. Nothin... |
22 May 2008
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Organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs for short, are now viewed as the future of solid state displays, mostly because they are easy to manufacture and much more efficient at converting electric energy into light. Nevertheless, the OLED design is flawed by the fact that they are very susceptible to moisture, which i... |
23 April 2008
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