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Elio Motors Uses Emerging Tech with New Car

May

2013

The new Elio tri-wheel vehicle is making waves with its $7,000 price tag. Upon release, this automobile is intended to sell for at least fifty percent of the cheapest car in the USA that is currently on the market. It does use a tiny gas power train instead of the more common electric option, but ...

Invention and Evolution of Microphone

Apr

2013

Evolution of Microphone began in eighteenth century when telephone transmitter was developed by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell simultaneously. The word “microphone” comes from the Greek words “micro”, meaning small, and “phone” meaning voice. This word first appeared in a dictionary in 1683, where it was defined as “an instrument by which small sounds are ...

Five Scientists who were injured or killed by their own experiments 1

Apr

2013

Some of the greatest discoverers had to face injuries, and sadly, some even died due to the hazards inherent in their experiments. Let us take a look at some of these great scientific pioneers whose discoveries have revolutionized the world but had to face personal injuries in their pursuit of knowledge. Galileo Galilei Galileo’s endeavor to refine ...

Gaming – For Science. Fold.it lets you solve puzzles for science.

Apr

2013

Fold.it let’s you game – For science. You can solve real world puzzles which can help science by using this tool and you don’t have to be a scientist or biologist. It’s exploits have even made it to newspaper headlines. One such headline talks about how a group of some video gamers solved the structure ...

Does India needs to invest in Solar Trees?

Apr

2013

Guest Post by : Dr. S. N. Maity who is Scientist at CMERI . Most efficient way of tapping the power of the Sun by harnessing it’s rays is by using Crystalline silicon Photo Voltaic (PV) module in solid form for direct absorption of Sun light. If vast tracts of land are used for capturing solar power it ...

Applications of Golden ratio in Biology and Human Body

Apr

2013

Check out parent post : The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci series and their applications. Golden ratio in Biology Nature too is replete with numerous examples of the Golden Ratio. Nature has followed this proportion in its own creations. Let’s first consider the spiral structure of a snail. Do you find anything interesting? Yes, the spiral structure of the ...

Applications of golden Ratio in Ancient Art and Architecture

Apr

2013

Check out parent post : The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci series and their applications. Interestingly, the golden ratio is found in various famous ancient arts. The most remarkable in this regard is the famous painting ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo da Vinci. The length:width ratio of the painting is perfectly a golden ratio. More surprisingly, Mona Lisa is made ...

The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci series and their applications.

Apr

2013

The Golden Number is a magical phenomenon in Mathematics and finds application in nature and our life in a big way. Read on to find out more. WHAT has mathematics got to do with beauty? A lot if you just look around. The most beautiful things that catch our eye are the ones that are the ...

Do Plants behave like Humans? They do!

Apr

2013

The enigmatic lifestyle of the plants has unfolded a wider spectrum of possibilities. Rescinding the myth of a passive plant world, the secret world of plants reveals a landscape pulsing with sex, movement, communication, and social interaction. This is a world where plants talk, forage, wage war and protect their kin; a world where plants ...

India needs to promote Basic Sciences and Applied Sciences Research

Apr

2013

The Indian Science Congress held at Kolkata in January 2013 had a topical theme, ‘Science for Changing the Future of India’. Deliberations and discussions revolved around two important aspects: Science in India and its role in changing the country into a Knowledge Centre. Often it is not just money that attracts the talented young people ...