Wasps may seem like a tiny little creature and you may think nothing much about them. They are puny little animals with a brain the size of two grains of sand. Though you shouldn’t underestimate the brain power of the wasps. Scientists have been studying the brain of the wasp and have discovered they have [...]
Entries from October 21st, 2009
Wasp Show the Ability to Alter Their Brain’s Architecture
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
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Computers Can’t Get Any Faster?
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Physics
It almost seems that in these times as soon as you walk out of the store after purchasing a new computer, a new one has been made that is two times faster. The natural thinking is that computers will be so fast that their speed will be infinite. The truth is that this is not [...]
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Asian Animal Faces Extinction
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
The asian animal, Saola, is becoming endangered. The Saola most closely resembles the desert antelopes of Arabia, but is most closely related to wild cattle. When the Saola was discovered in 1992, it was already rare, but numbers have sharply downturned since then. The Saola faces extinction mainly from hunting. Numbers of the Saola are [...]
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Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Two scientists in China have used what they call “metamaterials” to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The physicists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from Southeast University in China, created this tiny black hole in their laboratory. All this talk of black holes and metamaterials sounds pretty cool right? But what exactly does [...]
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