Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper. Simply coating a sheet of paper with ink made of single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) and silver nanowire films makes a highly conductive storage device, said Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University.

The 110th Christmas Bird Count is now in progress. From December 14 through January 5 tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the Americas take part in an adventure that has become a family tradition among generations. Audubon recently-released Birds and Climate report clearly shows that climate change is affecting birds – and our world – now. For the past 40 years, as our climate has warmed, birds have shifted their  [ Read More ]

Today, Christmas festival is celebrated on a grand-scale in India as well as in all over the world. Christians and even the non-Christian community take part with great enthusiasm in the different festivities associated with it. Christmas celebration varies in various parts of India. In some parts, small clay oil-burning lamps, mango leaves etc are used as Christmas decorations and banana and mango trees are decorated. Churches, Markets and homes  [ Read More ]

Have you been facing the challenge of some events that you should not fear about? Are your fears gearing to some other aspects of your life? Are you affected socially, mentally and physically? Do they cause you much stress? Well you are not just having panic attacks. You may already be encountering phobias.

Have you been afraid of something even if others say there is no basis for that fear? What do you usually do when you are frightened of something? Do you become troubled, disturbed or apprehensive? If you are in this position, then you might be having panic attacks. Fear is a feeling which must be carefully distinguished from anxiety. While both fear and anxiety may show themselves in similar reactions  [ Read More ]

Stress is already a part of daily living. You may never know it but you are already affected by this issue. You shout at your kids or nag your partner about something. You seem to raise an issue out of a particular event even if it is not true. You also tend to be suspicious at some points. All these are due to stress.

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s first album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released on 23 November 2009. Susan Boyle’s first album has become the fast-selling debut album in UK chart history. ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ sold 410,000 copies in its first week, beating previous record holder Leona Lewis. It is also the fourth biggest first week sales for any artist album in chart history, according to the Official Charts  [ Read More ]

Do you want to know a really cool thing you can do with a telescope? Just to let you know, it is not spying on your neighbor 10 houses down the street or trying to look in the bedroom of the gorgeous girl that lives next door. The answer is look at the stars and take pictures of them. Now this can not be done with just a regular telescope.  [ Read More ]

Learning how to find success in all areas of you life is so important to be able to learn how to live the life of your dreams. The sad reality of life is if you were to take a poll you would find that most people are not happy or successful in their life. They had dreams and aspirations when they were growing up but they got lost some where  [ Read More ]

One of the best things about being human is the ability to laugh. A normal human being has a functional emotional center in the brain, which reacts every time the person hears a joke. Recent medical studies prove that smiling and laughing have many health benefits. Aside from the social impact of funny situations, laughing also helps to reduce stress and to speed up healing in people with medical conditions.  [ Read More ]