The new year. What is the new year?
We are at just some hours of the new year; the transition between 2013 and 2014. How many hours? well it depends on where you are. This new...Read More
Self assembling robots
Maybe you remember the T-1000 from the movie Terminator 2: judgment day. Since this terminator made of liquid metal, it was able to take th...Read More
Free communication in remote areas using balloons: Project Loon
The idea of using the stratosphere for improving communications was introduced and tested almost a decade ago. The European project Capanin...Read More
Plastic pollution in oceans and also lakes
What is a garbage patch? All the garbage produced will eventually end up in the oceans and major water bodies. Then, currents will turn i...Read More
Passphrase instead of password
A recent study reported that more than 90% of all passwords are vulnerable to being hacked in just seconds. Moreover, the 10 000 most comm...Read More
Why is gold so valuable?
Gold, like no other metal, has a fascinating history and a special place in the world. For thousands of years it has been used as an ornam...Read More
New One World Trade Center
On May 10 2013, the spire of the new "One World Trade Center" (OWTC) was installed in New York. The new OWTC has total high of 17...Read More
Earthquakes: Magnitude and Intensity
The last days there have been many news about earthquakes at different locations. However, some of the news mix the concepts of magnitud...Read More
Faster than the sound? Our velocity due to Earth's rotation.
We all have heard about relative motion and about relative velocity. "The continuous change of position of a body with respect to a sec...Read More
Earthquakes
April 2013 was marked by unusual high earthquake activity around the world. There were many news about earthquakes at different locations: C...Read More
Online GIS for global awareness: Rwanda genocide
It is already 19 years from the Rwandan Genocide and United Nations failure. In this post I will not talk about the international failure a...Read More
Longer and colder winters because of global warming
We are in April and finally a hot sunny day after a long winter. However, some Northern Hemisphere locations still have cold temperatures....Read More
Technologies for detecting antipersonnel mines
Antipersonnel mines are explosive devices designed either to injure or kill humans. They are indiscriminate weapons that injure and kill ci...Read More
Auroras: What are they? When to watch them?
Some days ago, National Geographic published amazing photos of a ghostly green aurora borealis over Iceland (Image 1 and Image 2). Not onl...Read More
Modelling Mars Hydrology?
The interest about water and waterpaths in the red planet is quite old. In the late 19th century the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparell...Read More
World Water Day 2013: Water Cooperation
In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared 22 of March as the "World Water Day", as a means of focusing attention on th...Read More
Not even Superman could have stopped Russian Meteorite
We still remember that last February 15, 2013, a meteorite hit the Russian Ural's near the city of Chelyabinsk. Several persons were in...Read More
Black Holes Factory?
In 2006 it was predicted that the world's most powerful particle accelerator, a.k.a. "Large Hadron Collider", would enable to...Read More
Garbage Patch in the Oceans
One of the problems of not considering the territorial distribution based on basins, is that we create the idea that we can solve problems b...Read More
Satellite detected Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami
Last March 11 the world remembered the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March 2011. New studies have revealed that this massive ...Read More
Solar Wind
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It mostly consists of electrons and protons....Read More
Energy Consumption and Global Warming
The earth at night. This photo collage made with more than 400 superimposed remote sensing images shows the whole planet during the night. ...Read More
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