Caño Cristales is a river located in Northern Columbia, with a length of almost 100 km and a width of under 20 meters. If you look at it, you’d be tempted to think this is some sort of illusion or photographic trick, but you’d be wrong. It’s quite remote, and you can get there only by [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
First of all, let me say that we are not associated in anyway with Science Commons (although we’d really like that, heh). I just think their initiative is logical and it should succeed. Find the details on their website.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I came across this particular pic which really made me think. I don’t know if they did the math right, but if they did, with a surface as big as the plastic island floating around in the Pacific covered with solar panels, the whole world could be powered. If we consider other sources of clean [...]
Friday, January 22, 2010
Well, this picture is 3 years old or so, but I haven’t seen it, so I figured there’s a chance some of you guys might have missed it too. Taken in Perth, when some locals were out on the beach to see the fireworks, the picture also captures spectacular lightning, but the really amazing thing is [...]
Friday, January 1, 2010
Hello people! If you’re reading this then New Year’s hangover is no more and you’re up and ready to start the new year. Well so are we, and if nothing extraordinarily bad happens, well be kicking it all the way to next Christmas! May everything you wished for twenty ten become reality, and nothing short [...]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Scientists from the observatory near Hangzhou joined tourists and locals in observing the longest eclipse of the century, and possibly the longest one since the dawn of civilization. People all over China and India (and not only) watched in awe for 5 minutes and 36 seconds as the moon’s shadow covered their countries. “We saw it! [...]
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Private company SpaceX has successfully delivered its first payload into orbit. It was the second successful launch for the company, which aims to reduce the cost of reaching orbit by a factor of ten. The launch took place Monday from Omelek in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. The two-stage Falcon [...]
Friday, July 10, 2009
Mike Massimino hit the news in May as the first to “Tweet” in space. He began “tweeting” under the name “Astro Mike” while training for the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Soon nearly 250,000 people were following his Twitter feed. The reality is that Massimino probably wasn’t really “tweeting” at all, [...]
Monday, July 6, 2009
As much as technology has improved, a solution to improve the blind’s situation dramatically is yet one to be found. However, as researchers from the the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) have discovered, the solution may be provided by nature, or more exactly by other inhabitants of our planet: the dolphins and the bats. It [...]
Monday, June 15, 2009
The swine influenza is now, officially, the 4th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization made an official move and declared the first global influenza pandemic in the last 40 years, for the A(H1N1) virus. However, it’s still unknown if this decision will actually change something in [...]
Cold Sores
Many adults and children carry the virus that causes cold sores
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