It moves like a snake and fights fire! It is another Anna Konda – not another fiction-writer’s imagination. But, the ‘real’ 3 m long and 70 kg snake is developed by SINTEF in Norway.
It is a robotic snake — containing 20 water hydraulic motors to…
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It is dangerous for a house when a natural gas line ruptures by a struck of a earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7! The entire house can get engulfed in a ball of flames in moments.
To ensure that such a scenario never becomes reality, Thomas…
A reservoir of the size of a small city! And that too, a manmade one! Yes, engineers in Florida are planning to build one of the world’s largest manmade reservoirs, and will start building it next month. The main objective of the venture is to…
Everglades to get world’s largest manmade reservoir with capacity of 62 billion gallons! Read More »
From Care2 comes the top ten eco-friendly reasons to buy organic meat and dairy, so that you and your family can lead healthy lives and support local farms along the way.
10 green reasons to choose Organic Meat & Dairy:
1. Free of Antibiotics, Added…
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A remote camera is trained to get the close-up of every move of the McNeil River bears. So now, you don’t need to be just lucky to have a glance of the bears. Amazingly, the camera pans the falls where the bears gather to brawl over salmon, cool off in.
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Shaping ‘living trees’ into furniture and sculpture! That is what Richard Reames does using ancient grafting techniques along with a few basic tools. This branch of art is called Arborsculpture. Unlike Bonsai — the art of miniaturizing trees — the art..
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British waters get the most advanced environment-friendly passenger ferry. Though the boat is slow and travels only a short distance, Britain has good reasons to boast about. It is Britain’s biggest solar-powered boat and debuted on a lake in London’s..
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With industries getting innovative along with their shifts to producing alternative fuel, Research and Development Institute (SARDI) in South Australia plans to extract alternative fuel from micro-algae. This project is a part of their one of a…
Australia’s SARDI to produce bio-diesel from micro-algae! Read More »
With Beijing gearing up for the 2008 Olympics, China attempts to ensure food safety by beginning to track its vegetables. Beijing has planned to give every cabbage, carrot and pea pod its own identity number and file, the Beijing News…
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The fashion future for once did not dominate the ramp floor of Paris or New York, but a Toronto biotechnology conference. Dresses made from a new fiber called Ingeo, made a breakthrough of biotechnology in the clothing industry. The fiber Ingeo is made.
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