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Man's desire to fly is known to have existed ever since the earliest recorded history. To fulfill his dream, man turned to nature and tried to copy the winged creatures, most of the times such attempts ending in disasters. We only have to look at today's flying machines to understand to that we have never r... |
7 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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By simply casting a look towards our surroundings we can say that the amazing "inventions" of nature compete with the most advanced high technologies. The convergence between the living and the artificial world gave birth to an increasingly fecund science called bionics. This term was used for the first time by major... |
22 April 2008
09:44 GMT |
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In nature, any species is sought after by other predator or prey species, which detect it through their senses (sight, hearing, smell). Victims can defend through venoms, unpleasant smells, run, or by deceiving the sensory input of their predators. One method is camouflage and mimicry. It is a balance between prey an... |
22 March 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Nothing surprises me anymore. Hackers will just send out viruses wherever they can, reagardless of who they may attack. As the latest cases show, these guys are stooping very low. Such is the case of The Nature Conservancy - after a recent attack on sensitive info belonging to about 14.000 people had leaked. Naturall... |
3 October 2007
08:46 GMT |
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Polymers are repeating structural units, or monomers, connected by covalent chemical bonds, present in many natural and artificial materials, from plastics to DNA. Scientists were able to use these polymers to spontaneously create objects that mimic nature's complex shapes.This is the first time anyone succeeds... |
23 July 2007
08:01 GMT |
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For the past century, mankind reached an unprecedented degree of development that would made our ancestors consider us wizards. Technological breakthroughs are in the news everyday, new materials are created that almost defy logic, if not the laws of physics.However, nature keeps surprising us when we least expect i... |
3 July 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters - due to the current man made global warming - could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals r... |
17 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Screensavers as an idea are more and more apart from what they were created for. And I stand for this taking into account two different reasons although both of them concern safety. The first one is about the safety of your monitors and especially the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) ones. When a CRT screen displays the same i... |
27 March 2007
12:57 GMT |
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