I have often been asked about my thoughts on the recently increased storm activity and global warming. The fact is, you cannot judge a book by its cover, so you cannot make any definitive statements one way or the other about global warming based on current storms, which are primarily local effects.
Global warming...
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Research
The Changing Climate
Small-Scale Invisibility Cloaks
For generations, the topic of invisibility has been of great interest. Although it was once dismissed as science fiction, it has now become reality on a small scale. Physics textbooks around the world must be rewritten and scientists must admit that they were wrong.
For the first time, scientists in Germany announced that they...
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Immortality the Current Scientific Situation
The desire to live forever has always been there. People have done everything in their power from sorcery to ingestion of purported pills for eternity so as to live forever. Yet we do not usually see people living beyond 100. Is a change on the horizon?
The Desire For Longevity: Grandma Stories that children...
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What Are Renewable and Non Renewable Energy Sources
There is a lot of talk these days about investing in renewable sources of energy. What exactly is a source that is renewable and non renewable?
Non Renewable Energy Sources: For thousands of years man has been using firewood for almost all his energy sources. The supply was endless as long as the industrial...
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Using Sunlight More Efficiently
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo have developed a way for low-cost solar cells to more efficiently convert sunlight into electricity.The research, which increases the "lifetime" of electrons created in a solar cell so they can make more electricity, is a possible step in the direction of bringing down...
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