A New Monster Discovered...

A new discovery in  the field of Archealogy......
                 A new species of The Giant Monsters is discovered in Utah's Cedar Mountain.....
Scientists from Chicago Field Musem annonced the discovery  of Siats Mekarorum ,a dinosaur that streched more than 30 feet long and weighing more than 4 tons.
          Based on the size and characteristics of this massive creature,it is expected to be on the top of the food chain,and assumed to rule the time so called "The Last Age Of Dinosaurs"

   

Now Park Your Car From Outside.... ;)

You dont believe it...check this out....
Ford can now park cars in spaces so tight you couldn’t get out of the door even if you could get the car in the space. The Fully Assisted Parking Aid for backing into perpendicular and angled parking spaces .
              The Full Assisted Parking Aid (FAPA) is a follow-on to Ford’s Active Parking Assist  for automated parallel parking, done with the driver in the car. As with APA, FAPA uses ultrasonic sensors to scan for an open parking space at speeds as high as 19 mph (30 kph). When the car finds a suitable spot it alerts the driver, who can stay in the car or get out and use a remote to finish the parking job. The car then backs itself in to the parking space.It then switches gears and accelerator automatically.The driver’s function is to keep his or her finger on the button during the maneuver.
Watch this video...here

The Mummification......

•  Belief in after life of Egyptians led to the process of Mummification.  
• They believed that the only way to have an after is to possess the body after death.
• It is possible only if we preserve it some how.

These are the steps of mummification...

1)Pull brain out of nose using a hook

2)Make a cut on the left side of the body near the tummy

3)Remove all internal organs

4)Let the internal organs dry

5)Place the lungs, intestines, stomach and liver inside canopic jars

6)Place the heart back inside the body

7)Rinse inside of body with wine and spices

8)Cover the corpse with  salt for 70 days

9)After 40 days stuff the body with linen or sand to give it a more human shape

10)After the 70 days wrap the body from head to toe in bandages

11)Place in coffin(box used for funerary)

12)If the person had been a Pharaoh, he would be placed inside his special burial chamber with lots of treasure!

Healing Batteries?

Researchers at Stanford University think they have come up with a solution to improve the lithium-ion battery, which could lead to improvements in the next generation of mobile phones and electric cars.

Currently lithium-ion batteries contain silicon electrodes. Although silicon is a great material because it has a high capacity for absorbing and releasing lithium ions during charging and discharging, it also swells to three times the size and shrinks again during a charge-discharge cycle. This means they often don’t last very long.

A poor service life may not be a big issue if it is in a smartphone as people tend to replace them frequently anyway but it becomes a much bigger problem when someone has purchased something more pricey, like an electric car for example. When a person wants to sell the car on, they expect it not to need any major component replacements and in an electric car, the battery is a pretty major component.

This is one of the reasons why the motor industry is so reluctant to produce more battery cars. Even Tesla Motors, who is well-known for electric cars, has admitted that battery life could be a major problem for the company as its cars get older.

The Concept Of Healing Polymer

So what have the experts at Stanford University come up with? Well, they have been able to develop a strong and stretchy polymer which can be used to coat a silicon electrode. As cracks form during the charge and discharge process, the coating is able to “heal” the cracks.

“Self-healing is very important for the survival and long lifetimes of animals and plants,” says Chao Wang, a postdoc researcher at Stanford. “We want to incorporate this feature into lithium ion batteries so they will have a long lifetime as well.”

At the moment the researchers have been only been able to get this marriage of silicon and polymer coating to last for 100 charge cycles before it starts to lose performance. There is still ground to cover, with the goal being to reach 500 cycles for a phone and 3,000 for an electric vehicle. But as Professor Yi Cui points out “the promise is there, and from all our data it looks like it’s working.”

New Method That Can Revolutionize The Solar Energy Harvesting........

Solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest abundant, renewable energy. Although the highest energy light occurs in the ultraviolet and visible spectrum, most solar energy is in the infrared. There is a trade-off in harvesting this light, so that solar cells are efficient in the infrared but waste much of the energy available from the more energetic photons in the visible part of the spectrum.
                                                 Researchers a Cambridge and Mons have found that there can be a process in which the initial electronic excitation can split into a pair of half-energy excitation. This can happen in certain organic molecules when the quantum mechanical effect of electron spin sets the initial spin 'singlet' state to be double the energy of the alternative spin 'triplet' arrangement.

                                                             
                                                  A Study published in journal Natural Chemistry shows that this process of singlet fission of triplet pairs depends on interaction of molecules...When the material is very dilute, the distance between molecules is large and singlet fission does not occur. When the solution is concentrated, collisions between molecules become more frequent. The researchers find that the fission process happens as soon as just two of these molecules are in contact, and remarkably, that singlet fission is then completely efficient -- so that every photon produces two triplets.
                 

Beware Poachers!!!

Yes the need for a robot deer has really come.
It is now being used in taking aim at illegal hunters.
Apparently, the police in Florida have been having a tough time lately catching hunters who are hunting deer out of season.  So what did they decide to do about it? They created a robot deer.To create the robot deer, they partnered with a local taxidermy to make sure the animal looked just right, and judging from the picture of a robot deer below, it seems they can get pretty accurate with all of the details.

Once the deer was properly “outfitted”, police set it up in a location they felt was sure to attract poachers. And the best part is that the robot deer did not just stood there, either. Using a remote control, the police were able to control the deer from a distance to make it act like an actual deer. All their hard work paid off too, because a certain hunter decided to shoot it through the neck from his vehicle. As soon as the shot was fired, police came out of hiding and arrested the hunter. This particular man could face a year and jail and a $2500 fine if he is found guilty.

So poachers be aware this new technology is really going to be tough on you!!!

Maybe that robotic deer would be embedded with cameras and sensors so that there is no need of police people same as that of traffic cameras,cctv,etc..

Also do not think that they are just in Florida and you can continue your poaching.They can come to your place also.

Also be aware that this is just the first step.Maybe next animal maybe tiger,rhino,etc...!!!

How And Why Chameleons Change Colour.....

There is this myth that chameleons change colour to blend in with their surroundings, but this is actually not true.  Most of the reason chameleons change colour is as a signal, a visual signal of mood and aggression, territory and mating behaviour.

The way that chameleons actually do this is really molecular – they're molecular masterminds, really.  If you look at the skin of a chameleon, you find that they have several layers of specialised cells called chromatophores and these are cells that can change colour.  On the outer surface of the chameleon, the skin is transparent and just below that is the first layer of these cells, and they contain various pigments.  These are xanthophores, containing particular specialised pigments that have a yellow colour.  Beneath that are pigment cells which are called erythrophores which have a red colour in them.  Beneath that, another layer of cells called iridiphores have a blue coloured pigment called guanine, which is actually also used in making DNA.  And underneath that is another layer of cells called melanophores which have a brown pigment – melanin – in them. 

Now, how does the chameleon change colour?  Well those chromatophores are wired up to the nervous system.  They are also sensitive to chemicals that are washing around in the blood stream of the chameleon.  What happens is that the colours are locked away in tiny vesicles, little sacs inside the cells that keep them in one place, so the cells don't look coloured.  But when a signal comes in from the nervous system or from the blood stream, the granules or vesicles can discharge, allowing the colour to spread out across the cell, and this alters the colour of the cell.  It’s rather like giving the cell a coat of paint.  By varying the relative amount of activity of the different chromatophores in different layers of the skin, it’s like mixing different paints together.  So if you mix red and yellow, you get orange for example, and this is how chameleons do this.  They mix different contributions of these chromatophores.  It’s a bit like on your television screen.  When you mix different colours together on the screen to get the colour that the eye ultimately perceives and so, that’s how the chameleon changes colour, and usually does so to convey mood.

So a calm chameleon is a pale greeny colour.  When it gets angry, it might go bright yellow, and when it wants to mate, it basically turns on every possible colour it can which shows that it’s in the mood.  This is not unique to chameleons.  Other animals also have these chromatophores. Cuttlefish are another very elegant example of how this works.  So it’s not so much to do with camouflage.  It’s more to do with communication.