Stephen Hawking has been suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease since he was twenty-one years old. Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is an incurable disease that often results in death. Yet to the amazement of many doctors, Stephen Hawking has lived many years beyond the usual life span of a victim of Lou Gehrig’s disease, [...]
Entries from January 6th, 2012
Leonard da Vinci’s Beguiling Trees!
January 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Physics
Just a little over, 500 years ago perhaps, or maybe even more, Leonardo da Vinci had been examining the stature of a tree trunk and the stature of the tree trunk’s branches. It appears that, the cross-sectional expanse of a tree’s female offspring is equivalent to the mother’s cross-sectional branch. However, Leonardo never understood why [...]
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Magnetically Guided Doctors
January 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Physics
How would you like taking two robots instead of two pills? It may sound frightening at first, but scientists have begun constructing gadgets that are less than an inch in size that could be maneuvered inside the body by magnetism. Previous attempts at such a tool were made, but required three different processes to move the [...]
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