Science Hax

At first view on this I was thinking how it is nice and eco-friendly to have such car that runs on coffee, then It reminded me that one cup of coffee cost as same as one liter of gasoline. Here you can see the car that runs on coffee and its name is Car-puccino. It is actually modified Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988. The constructor of this machine claims that the car will be driven from Manchester to London using the power of roasted coffe...

Wood is really nice material to build anything that is touchable and I have seen a lot of different wooden house interiors but this one is way more bizarre of all of them. Venetian sculptor Livio De Marchi wasn't satisfied only with regular furniture that can be made from wood, he decided to make almost everything in his house from wood and as you can see from following photos he done that pretty well. If you look in his wardrobe which...

Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist that creates amazing unique sculptures made from a different plastic pieces like spoons, forks, toys and similar. She creates sculptures of different animals from a thousands of plastic pieces. The final result is amazing. She says that she creates those sculptures from a different discarded objects from peoples' houses. She claims that the fact that those objects were part of other peoples' lives before she t...

Building a home that is inexpensive and unique in same time is real challenge today. A perfect example how home can be built with less money is this house which is designed by architects Claire Helene Drouin and Jean Marie Sanchez. The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design. This home is built in Marseille, F...

Those people have decided to create something unique and something that you don't see everyday and yet it is cheap and it is built from a recycled materials. This house is one of the examples how home can be built without spending much money. This house has been built from a cheap recycled materials. But those people are not just savvy they are also pretty creative, you can see how some of the walls, doors and roof are mosaic-like decorat...

Nowadays we are feeling a rising awareness to the reality that our energy resources, as they have been in use the past few years, are most likely not going to last for to much longer and the energy markets are being broken in to increasingly fast alterations, some are due to governmental reasons and others because of the changing climate of the world. Fossil fuel is able to be exhausted and soon. Solar power on the other hand is sustainable, m...

When you see windmills what comes to your mind? Do you think of the Dutch countryside scattered with these structures? Do you think of the windmill-fighting Don Quixote, the fictional Spanish nobleman? Whatever comes to your mind, one thing is true; wind solar power is now a reality in many places. After decades of neglect, windmills are being adapted and changed in design to allow them to produce the needed energy that is so vital for life in th...

Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information, helping scientists unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out. An examination of a fungus that is found in the ancient dung and preserved in lake sediments has helped build a picture of what happened to the beasts.The study sheds light on the ecological consequences of the extinction and the role that humans may have played in it.Researchers describe this ...

This is the time to look on the cute, cozy plastic carry-bag, which you are carrying to home after a big purchase. Yeah, you are doing a big mistake which you cannot take back and which will donate to a deadly pollution. The ill-effects are irretrievable and capable of getting out to numerous generations to come. Plastic is one of the few new chemical materials which create environmental problem. Plastic is the general common term for a wide r...

Scientists have been claiming that the Arctic Ocean could be very much free of ice during the summer within the space of a decade (although the predictions vary wildly). This claim has been supported by the results of the studies by scientists over the spring: taking measurements across a 280-mile (450km) long stretch along the Beaufort Sea. Their conclusions were that the ice found was mostly young and thin. Peter Wadhams, a sea-ice expert ba...