VIA “inhabitat.com” by Colin Payne Portland residents can now generate green electricity simply by turning on their water taps and flushing their toilets. Fast Company reports that the Oregon city is using a state-of-the art system to capture energy from water flowing through the city’s pipelines. Small turbines installed inside the pipelines are turned by […]
VIA “themindunleashed.org” by Josh Richardson The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is completing a unique experiment called the Holometer which has recently started collecting data to answer some mind-bending questions about our universe–including whether we live in a hologram. Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D […]
VIA “themindunleashed.org” Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs. Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you […]
VIA “simpleorganiclife.org” Pop quiz: which is more polluted, indoor air or outdoor air? 10 times out of 10, indoor air in your house, office or apartment is going to be worse than the air outside. Indoor air pollution has been ranked among the top 5 greatest risks to public health by the EPA, and stagnant […]
VIA “pulptastic.com” Wildlife photographer Henry Mp must be really good at timing. Or maybe he’s just luckier than most of us. During his stay in Indonesia, Mp spotted a Reinwardt’s Flying Frog on the back of a giant horned wood-boring beetle. And much to his surprise, the scene that unfolded before him looked unbelievably awesome. […]
VIA “iflscience.com” by Danielle Andrew As a nod to the fith anniversary of the Solar Dyamics Observatory’s launch, NASA has created and released a stunning five-year timelapse of the sun. The footage was captured by taking one frame every 8 hours from 2010 to 2015, with different colours representing different wavelengths.
VIA “nasa.gov” Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the […]