Posts Tagged ‘wood’

The Stradivarius Violin Secreats Finally Decoded Via CT Scan

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:31 No Comments

For 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 [...]

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Scientist Cloned Himself

Saturday, January 19, 2008 17:45 No Comments

Samuel 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)
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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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