Science Hax

British microbiologist Brian Valentine is always keen on macro photography. According to him, now, when he retired, he had to devote much more time creating their amazing pictures taken by SLR. Most of the shots taken in his own garden, because apart from interest in photography, Brian is also an avid gardener. ...

It is a sign from fossil land snail shells as located in ancient soils on the subtropical Eastern Canary Islands that the Spanish archipelago located off the North-Western African coast has become progressively drier over the last 50,000 years. (Credit: Image courtesy of Southern Methodist University) Certain isotopic measurements carried out on fossil land snail shells, have yielded oxygen isotope ratios indicating that the relative hum...

It looks like any other sea slug, aside from its bright green hue. But the Elysia chlorotica is far from ordinary: it is both a plant and an animal, according to biologists who have been studying the species for two decades. Not only does E. chlorotica turn sunlight into energy — something only plants can do — it also appears to have swiped this ability from the algae it consumes. Credit: Nicholas E. Curtis and Ray Martinez Native t...

The Korowai tribe which counts about 3000 people is one of the weirdest tribes in the world. They live in southeastern Papua/New Guinea and their culture still remains isolated from the modern civilization. As most of tribes, they have many weird customs and some of them consider cannibalism, too. Like the fact that they are living in their own tribal way is not weird enough, they have something what makes them even more weird and unique. ...

We are witnessing the fact that our urban settlements are becoming cold and dark bunch of steel and concrete. That is against the humans nature and is against the nature at all. Humans naturally do not feel comfortable in such urban areas where you cannot see a single plant. Studuio Seilern Architects came to an interesting idea to create a building which will not bounce from the standards of urban life and still it will be eco-friendly an...

Swimming and diving with the dolphin was always one of my dreams, but as most of you know, it is not so easy to find a real dolphin and it is less easier to catch it and hold it to swim and dive with. Now here is a pretty cool sea scooter which can replace the dolphins and it is not so hard to catch it at all :) Here you can see a photos of eco-friendly scooter which is designed by Design Icon. It is powered by an electric engine so it do...

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...