We are all familiar with those old movies in which the “bad guys” are doing weird military and medical experiments on an unsuspecting public. Before the movie ends the “good guys” have taken out the baddies and saved those innocent…
Read more
Overview of the pleura: Pleura is the protective layer which covers the lungs and can be described as a large membrane which in-folds over itself to create a double layer of which the outermost layer is given the name parietal…
Read more
Exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial races ever assuming control of the Earth Personally, I think that, they’re here and in control already. If one wants to talk science fiction and about the possibility of aliens assuming control of Earth, one…
Read more
Gold foil can be used for a lot of things, especially if you are a creative person, and I am. However, one thing I never thought about doing with gold foil was to use it to conduct a scientific experiment. Ernest Rutherford,…
Read more
Animals have been used for the benefit of humans ever since we came down from the trees onto the African plains. The first great mammals gave us clothes to keep us warm, and food to keep us from starving. Today,…
Read more
In modern day medical sciences, knowing the oxygen saturation of a person’s blood is as easy as feeling for the patients pulse if you are in possession of a pulse oximeter. This device makes use of pulse oximetry which is…
Read more
Niels Bohr’s greatest contribution to chemistry was, arguably, to be the first to develop a physics-based model of the atom. The “Bohr Model” as it came be to known, incorporated the new ideas of quantum theory, and was the first…
Read more
From the earliest history of man, Empedocles, the Greek philosopher, was the first to theorize that everything in the cosmos consisted of four components, earth, air, fire and water. Approximately 700 years later, Aristotle espoused that there was indeed four…
Read more
What are the technologies that human will use for tomorrow? We can surely say that a technology that is going to be use by us for another 3 years is actually has been invented. It is only a matter of…
Read more
There is no reason to believe that having an ultra sound would harm the hearing of an unborn child. Their hearing responds to no higher frequencies than a child’s hearing. Having several ultrasounds is no different then having a dog…
Read more