THE NEXT BIG THING ON SKIN HEALING: THE e-bandage.
Chronic skin wounds include diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers and non-healing surgical wounds. Doctors have tried various approaches to help chronic wounds heal, including bandaging, dressing, exposure to oxygen and growth-factor therapy, but they often…
WE MIGHT BE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE: THE FERMI PARADOX AND THE ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN IT.
âTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.â â Arthur C. Clarke By Jesus Padilla The Fermi paradox, is a term coined after physicist Enrico Fermi established the…
WHERE MAGIC AND MAGNETISM COLLIDE: THE HISTORY OF MAGNETIC LEVITATION IN TRAINS.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez. During the XIX century the world was set in motion fueled by vapor machines. The Industrial Revolution delivered big changes in the way different products were made, led the way into…
REMEMBERING THOSE 50s SCI-FI MOVIES SOUNDS BEHIND A UFO: THE THEREMIN.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez According to David Byrne, art is affected by its context in a way that it actually transforms how it is made. For example, during the Baroque, most of the academic western…
READY FOR LIFT OFF: SATURN V, THE ROCKET THAT PUT THE MAN ON THE MOON.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez One of the most known components of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR was the so called Space Race, which drove a thrilling technological innovation in both countries,…
RETRO INVADERS: WHY THE ATARI 2600 TAUGHT US ALL WE KNOW ABOUT VIDEO GAMES.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez. Every single one of the cultural phenomena that now reigns in the actual panorama looked very different forty years ago; such is the case of the videogame industry. This sector that…
HOW THE WORLD WILL END? A COMPREHENSIVE LIST ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR STEPHEN W. HAWKING
Stephen William Hawking born January 8, 1942 and died March 14, 2018 was an English theoretical physicist and Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, he has been known as the last most…
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF A DREAM: DEFINITION, FACTS AND MYTHS ABOUT “ANTIGRAVITY”.
Anti-gravity also known as non-gravitational field is an idea of creating a place or object completely free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to balancing the force of gravity with some other force acting…
WHEN ART AND SCIENCE COLLIDE: THE DAWN OF THE âAUTOMATONâ ERA AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN ROBOTICS.
The definition of an automaton is based on the principle of a self-operated machine, designed to automatically follow a predetermined sequence of operations or able to respond to determined instructions. Historically, it is more common…
THE AMAZING TECH VISIONS FROM JULES VERNE´s “20k LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA”: THE NAUTILUS SUBMARINE.
Nautilus was the fictional submarine commanded by Captain Nemo and featured in Jules Verne’s novels “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” (1870) and “The Mysterious Island” (1874). Verne named the “Nautilus” after Robert Fulton’s real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). Three years before writing his novel,…
A LEGACY FROM THE BIG BANG: THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Gravitational waves are ripples that happen within the curvature of spacetime and are generated in certain gravitational interactions and propagate as waves outward from their source at the unbelievable speed of light. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of…
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHILIP K. DICK NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE “BLADE RUNNER” MOVIE(S).
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the name of the novel written by American writer Philip K. Dick which was the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner. The novel later on was…
