Posts Tagged ‘wood’
The Stradivarius Violin Secreats Finally Decoded Via CT Scan
Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:31 No CommentsFor three centuries people have been trying to reproduce the violins that Antonio Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu crafted. None knew how these violins were able to produce their characteristic sweet sound. Now scientists used CT scans (technique for scanning lung tissue) and found that the wood density is probably the key to the Stradivarius [...]
Scientist Cloned Himself
Saturday, January 19, 2008 17:45 No CommentsSamuel Wood is now in history books as the first human to clone himself! The cloned embryo was created by Samuel’s skin cells. The embryo lived only 5 days and its size was extremely small. The methodology behind this was the one used to create Dolly (the cloned sheep)
As you may have guessed the talks [...]
Elephants walk about in France
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 9:05 No Comments
Its weight is about 40 tons and its made from Virginian tulip wood (what is that?) and you can find it in the city of Nant , France. In this peculiar display you will have the chance to climb aboard the giant mechanical elephant or to the squid/calamari and take a stroll.
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