Science/Tech

The Windows Phone 7 launch was partially successful as Microsoft looked satisfied by the number of WP7 devices sold and with the company’s re-introduction on the smartphone market. Well, the more than 2 million Windows Phone 7 users worldwide have been waiting for the promised update in January, then February, but the so-called NoDo update [...]

After the users complained of some annoying issues, Apple has decided to release an update for its 2nd-gen Apple TV so now you can download Apple TV 4.2.1 and fix the screen flickering bug along with a couple of audio issues. Apple TV 4.2.1 update also comes packed with a fix for the bug which [...]

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 for desktops users worldwide and it has decided to focus on the mobile version of the browser therefore Android and Maemo 5 users can now download Firefox 4 RC for mobile. Ever since Firefox for Mobile has been first pushed to the users, the browser has been downloaded millions of times [...]

Year of Discovery: 1650 What Is It? The volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the force squeezing it. Who Discovered It? Robert Boyle Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The concept Robert Boyle discovered (now called Boyle’s Law) laid the foundation for all quantitative study and chemical analysis of gasses. It [...]

Year of Discovery: 1640 What Is It? Air (the atmosphere) has weight and presses down on us. Who Discovered It? Evangelista Torricelli Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? It is a simple, seemingly obvious notion: air has weight; the atmosphere presses down on us with a real force. However, humans don’t feel that [...]

Year of Discovery: 1628 What Is It? The first complete understanding of how arteries, veins, heart, and lungs function to form a single, complete circulatory system. Who Discovered It? William Harvey Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The human circulatory system represents the virtual definition of life. No system is more critical to [...]

Year of Discovery: 1610 What Is It? Other planets (be sides Earth) have moons. Who Discovered It? Galileo Galilei Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Galileo discovered that other planets have moons and thus extended human understanding beyond our own planet. His careful work with the telescopes he built launched modern astronomy. His [...]

India will produce the 1st home made plane, plane that will replace the old MiG 21 ones. The plane has 13 tones, was name Tejas, and the project for it started during 1985. The 1st flight with it was made on January 4th 2001 according to RIA Novosti. The Indian Air Forces made a command [...]

The British scientists are planning to create a super weapon: invisible tanks that could be used on the battle field in five years. The tanks will benefit from the new technology “e-camouflage”, that generates a new kind of pain, an electronically one, that will give the vehicles the color of the surrounding area according to [...]

Year of Discovery: 1609 What Is It? The planets orbit the sun not in perfect circles, but in ellipses. Who Discovered It? Johannes Kepler Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Even after Copernicus simplified and corrected the structure of the solar system by discovering that the sun, not the earth, lay at the [...]