Category: Science

Websites Student Needs To Know

College and university students now spend most of their time on a single website- facebook.com. Mobile users do not even bother about the website. They have their ‘app’ on their cell phone. No need to type the web address in the address bar. But if you are really serious about...

Things That Pose A Threat To Online Privacy

Tech news is continually abuzz with security warnings, hack updates, and consumer warnings. Malicious individuals can steal your identity, hijack your accounts, spend your funds, and discover sensitive personal data when you don’t keep your online activity in check. Enough is Enough, an Internet safety organization funded by the U.S....

Dropbox Alternatives with More Storage

Technology advances faster and faster by the day. Not that long ago American society was introduced to “the cloud” and now we’ve quickly become a cloud-based world. Remember when Gmail launched and introduced a free GB of email storage space, roughly 500 times more than Hotmail, their nearest competitor? At...

3-D printers are making cars!

On a Saturday morning earlier this September, the world got its first look at the Strati. This electric vehicle is unlike any other currently on the road. It rolls on four wheels, but its body and chassis weren’t built in a factory. Instead, Strati’s designers used a technology called 3-D...

Stunning Wearable Tech

With Apple diving into the wearable tech industry with the Apple Watch, truly portable technology is an exploding topic. While several different companies offer watches that sync with your smart phone, almost all of them provide similar perks. Additionally, the better known wearable tech pieces look nearly identical. While smart...

Five Places to Find Post Ideas 0

Five Places to Find Post Ideas

Coming up with great post ideas is rarely an easy task. Unfortunately, it’s also not a task that you can really afford to rush. If you want your blog to actually stand out, writing about the first thing that comes into your head is kind of counterproductive. After all, a...

Whale Watch 0

Whale Watch

Farhana Zaman It doesn’t matter how seasick people may feel. When a whale appears, nothing else matters, says whale researcher Steve Palumbi. “Everyone—from 5 to 95 years old—rushes to the side of the boat.” “Whales have that effect on people,” Palumbi adds. He’s a biology professor at Stanford University.

Mummies existed before Egypt’s pyramids 0

Mummies existed before Egypt’s pyramids

Mummy-making in Egypt may have been common long before communities stored their dead in giant stone tombs Ancient Egyptians started building pyramids more than 4,500 years ago. By then, people were already preserving the dead as mummies. In fact, new research now suggests mummies may predate those giant stone tombs...

Free Microsoft Office Alternatives 0

Free Microsoft Office Alternatives

There are so many free Microsoft Office alternatives out there that you won’t even miss having the real thing. And with the more than $200 price tag of Microsoft Office, your pocketbook won’t miss it either. These free Microsoft Office alternatives will let you download similar versions of Microsoft Word,...

Star-eating star spotted 0

Star-eating star spotted

SNACK TIME  Thorne-?ytkow Objects probably start out as binary stars, shown in this illustration. A supergiant eventually engulfs its neutron star companion (right). A star in a neighboring galaxy might have swallowed another star.

10 Google Docs Features You Probably Never Knew 0

10 Google Docs Features You Probably Never Knew

After three years of using a Chromebook and being a student at university for almost one year, Google Drive is a must to master and something that I would never missed out on learning. Here are some super cool tricks that will get you word processing like a professional now...

A  new view of dinosaurs, a clearer view of lunar origins 0

A new view of dinosaurs, a clearer view of lunar origins

Dinosaurs have undergone any number of scientific makeovers in the last few decades. When I was young, they were depicted as lumbering, over-sized lizards, “cold-blooded” and drab. That simplistic image was eventually replaced with a more vibrant one. The velociraptor à la Jurassic Park was agile, quick, birdlike — and quite possibly...

Electronics may confuse a bird’s ‘compass’ 0

Electronics may confuse a bird’s ‘compass’

Robins get disoriented when surrounded by the electromagnetic noise given off by some ordinary electronic devices The magnetic sense of European robins, like the one shown here, may get confused by the electromagnetic radiation given off by electronic devices.

20 Online File Sharing Tools You Should be Using 0

20 Online File Sharing Tools You Should be Using

In the past, you had few file sharing tools to choose from to distribute files that were too large for your email to handle. You could share large file by purchasing web-hosting space, you could copy the information onto a disc or USB drive and drop that in an envelope,...

Rules For Using Internet 0

Rules For Using Internet

The Internet is a worldwide web of people and information; it can be difficult to navigate, so you need to know the basics. It may not seem like it from the outside, but through all the sharing, trolling, and seemingly temporary conversations, there are certain rules for using the Internet....

The nose knows a trillion scents 0

The nose knows a trillion scents

A new study suggests the human nose can detect more than that many different odors The human nose can detect more than a trillion different odors. Getting that number took a lot of smelly work. Fortunately, scientists found dozens of volunteers willing to help out. There had been a long-standing...

The weight of thought 0

The weight of thought

The brain takes on blood — making it a bit heavier — as someone thinks heavy thoughts In the late 1880s, an Italian scientist reported that thinking can make the brain grow heavier — if only for a short while. The scientist, Angelo Mosso, placed volunteers on a full-body balance,...

Your Data Is Probably Not Safe Online 0

Your Data Is Probably Not Safe Online

I grew up on computers. Way before smartphones put the internet in the hands of every man, woman, and child in modern society, I sat in my room, staring at a black screen with c:// in a white font. There was no graphical user interface (GUI) back then, so there...

Computers Help Electric Cars Turn 0

Computers Help Electric Cars Turn

Researchers find electronic solution for the different wheel speeds needed to make these “green” cars safely round a corner Designing an electric car isn’t as simple as it might seem. Engineers can’t just swap out the gas tank for a big bank of batteries.

Create and Promote Your Website 0

Create and Promote Your Website

Anyone who wants to run a successful online business must start with a home base: their website. That’s where they share their story. Visitors will drop-by and see what solutions they find to their challenges and problems.