The Blue Tunnel, Antarctica

5 m high 150 m long ice tunnel formed by melt water and pressure ridges on the ice shelf near the Schirmacher Oasis. The Schirmacher Oasis (also Schirmacher Lake Plateau) is a 25 km long and up to 3 km wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 fresh water lakes. It is situated in the Schirmacher Hills on the Princess Astrid Coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica, and is on average 100 metres above sea level. With an area of 34 km², the Schirmacher Oasis ranks among the smallest Antarctic oases and is a typical polar desert

Austria’s Green Lake

A park that becomes a lake for the 

summer!!!

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Medical

It could be possible to treat children early with thyroid 

hormone supplementation to enhance their intelligence, 

but should we?

Aurora

Aurora or polar light are mesmerizing natural light display in the skies of high latitude regions. They are caused when energetic electrically charged particles from solar wind accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light. The auroral zone is typically 10° to 20° from the magnetic poles

Bionic eye

..........a ray of hope for the blind!!!!!

You use on an average 580lbs of paper each year. 

Imagine how much you'll use in a lifetime!!!!

New robot burrows like a clam using little energy 

Nanobionic plants

Plants that can detect chemical explosives!

By embedding tiny structures called carbon nanotubes into chloroplasts -- the energy factories inside plant cells -- researchers have been successful in increasing their light-capturing ability by 30 percent.

This new energy enabled them to sense atmospheric pollutant nitric oxide, they claimed.

"We have begun a new technology platform for plants called plant nanobionics," said Michael Strano, a chemical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

We all know that plant cells convert light into chemical energy by a process known as photosynthesis with the help from chloroplasts.Strano and his team embedded the chloroplasts with tiny antioxidant particles or nanoparticles.They then coated tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes in negatively charged DNA and embedded them in the chloroplasts.With both antioxidant nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes in the chloroplasts, these cells continued to function even longer.The researchers also improved the energy efficiency of living plants.They infused nanoparticles into a flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana and improved photosynthesis by 30 percent, said the study.

Nanobionic plants could also be used to monitor pesticides, fungal infections, bacterial toxins and hazardous chemical compounds, the study published in the journal Nature Materials concluded.