The largest flying dinosaur has been discovered in northeastern China in the Liaoning Province. Its been given the name Changyuraptor. The discovery of the fossil was made in China and has wide spreading paleontological implications which we shall discuss later in this piece.

The flying dinosaur was four feet long and is believed to have weighed five pounds. Interestingly, the entire body of these avian beasts were covered with feathers and they have been estimated to have lived one-twenty five million years ago.

The Changyuraptor had four wings which provided it with greater stability and direction control in flight. The tails on these fascinating creatures is estimated to be twelve inches long. Paleontologists suggest that the presence of over-sized feathers which cover the entire body of the archaic animal may have had an important role in landing.

Moving on to the paleontological implications; this piece of information may be suggestive of a more profound conclusion. That dinosaurs took flight much earlier than the evolution of birds.

In fact, Alan Turner of Stony Brook University points out that there are a number of features that experts had long associated with birds which now seem to have evolved from dinosaurs much before the evolution of the birds, examples include; nesting behavior, hollow bones, feathers and now probably even flight!

A micro-analysis of the fossil revealed that the dinosaur must have been a fully grown adult because of which the size of the dinosaur can be generalized to the average adult of the ancient dinosaur.

This amazing discovery is also indicative of the fact that flight was not restricted to smaller animals and even dinosaurs as big as the Changyuraptor experienced flight. Perhaps even larger flying dinosaurs existed millions of years ago?

Birds can now almost conclusively be called the descendants of dinosaurs but far more evidence is needed to completely understand the degree, detail and dynamics of dinosaur flight.

The physics has the answer of the question, how airplanes evolved. According to a study conducted by Adrian Bejan, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University ,a law of physics can describe the evolution of passenger airplanes from propeller-driven DC-3s of yore to today’s behemoth Boeing 787s. The law, has written down two decades ago, will also give insight to air plane companies how to improve their planes. It is certainly difficult mission to find out how the air planes have evolved since it took place in several life times. The exact answers to all these queries are in the constructal law that was developed by Began in 1996. It state that for a system to stay alive, it ought to develop its system.

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The constructal law also showed principles of chief design features of an air craft, the engine mass has remained proportional to the body size, the wing size has been tied to the fuselage length, and the fuel load has grown in step with the total weight.

To put these theories of air plane design into operation, he made a panel with Jordan Charles, a researcher and development engineer, and Sylvie Lorente, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toulouse, to make a successful commercial air plane. They planned thousands of statistics that included year of introduction, size, cruising speed, engine weight, fuel weight, range, wingspan and fuselage length, many patterns began to come into view.

WASHINGTON: Apple will partner exclusively with IBM to sell iPhones and iPads loaded with applications focused on enterprise clients. It is no secret that IBM’s hardware sales have diminished significantly and as a result they are trying to focus more on software and services. The announcement was made just two days before the release of the second quarter earnings.

IBM hopefully speculates that by 2015 software sales will form such a significant chunk of their business that it will account for half of its total profit. The company announced on Tuesday that it will release more than 100 apps related to very specific issues in particular industries concerning retail, health care, banking, transport and telecommunication.

Bridget Van Kalingen, the vice president of IBM said that they wanted to create an irresistible work flow and apps that can be used by every user in the organization.
IBM has also planned to develop cloud services optimized for Apple’s mobile operating system which as we all know is iOS.

Interestingly, following the announcement Blackberry’s shares fell by 3 percent. Blackberry has itself mostly withdrawn from the smart phone market and has focused on secure software for businesses and the corporate market. Now Apple’s partnership with IBM may focus on concerns regarding software security and data privacy, which in turn should further damage Blackberry.

In fact, IBM’s shares rose by 1.9 percent and Apple’s shares rose by 1.3 percent. One thing is for sure though, the partnership may damage Blackberry’s business but it will undoubtedly be a good thing for corporate consumers worldwide considering that both the companies are known for innovation and brilliance.

When you hear about roll-able TV screens you know that the future you have been waiting for has perhaps already arrived. LG electronics announced a rather different kind of OLED TV on Friday, which can be rolled up like a newspaper or in to a tube. It has an incredibly flexible, 18 inch screen with a resolution of 1200 x 810 and it can fascinatingly be rolled into a cylinder measuring 3 cm across.

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The company has revealed that the high flexibility is due to high molecular substance based polyimide film. As if that even remotely helps us understand how it works! Regardless, the fact that we can say with certainty that something like this will be available for use in the near future is exciting.
LG has said that it will be able to manufacture and release a 60 inch, semitransparent ultra-HD TV by 2017.

Even though price speculation this early is pointless, we can shed some light regarding its potential uses.
First things first, it will most probably look incredibly attractive and futuristic. But be that as it may, it also has a number of genuine uses. It’ll allow users to carry a TV in their bags and perhaps even their pockets. It will also save you the cost and physical stress of moving since it should be the very definition of portable. So the only additional expectation that we have from LG is that they release is sooner, because it seems like it’s going to be amazing!

Adam Wilkins from the Humboldt University of Berlin and co-authors Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna have proposed a hypothesis that begs much contemplation.
They suggest that the cuteness and the tamed attitude of domesticated animals is a disadvantage. The have created an association of the docile traits in domesticated animals with a group of embryonic stem cells called the neural crest.
More than 150 years ago the genius in Darwin coerced him to ponder why domesticated animals were so different compared to their wilder cousins. Thus, the neural crest hypothesis may finally provide an etiological explanation for why.
Today, our pets are definitely tamer, they have floppier ears, softer – less menacing – jawlines and have a relatively docile look. The explanation that the neural crest hypothesis suggests is that the stem cells are formed near the spinal column and during the initial development stages and they affect jaws, teeth, skin pigment, ears and the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands are linked with flight or fight responses and as a consequence of taming are curtailed or diminished.
Wilkins suggests that when humans started breeding these animals to become more docile they may have unintentionally selected animals with small neural crest abnormalities or deficits. That in turn would result in slow maturing adrenal glands which would limit their aggression and make them more resourceful for humans in multiple ways.

 

It is a rather interesting scientific hypothesis and if we are lucky it may reveal something further regarding mammalian genetics in general. It must be noted though, that it is rather reductionist. It doesn’t take into account environmental factors or slow behavioral conditioning that animals received as result of their interactions with humans. It does point out some cogent connections between breeding, genetics and resulting characteristics and is thus inherently valuable.
It also calls for a more philosophical contemplation of our relationship with animals, and how tremendously we have changed them and their lives. Domestication of animals has contributed in incalculable ways to civilization but a moral question comes to mind, are they only here as a resource for humanity or do they have independent existences?

When you hear about roll-able TV screens you know that the future you have been waiting for has perhaps already arrived. LG electronics announced a rather different kind of OLED TV on Friday, which can be rolled up like a newspaper or in to a tube. It has an incredibly flexible, 18 inch screen with a resolution of 1200 x 810 and it can fascinatingly be rolled into a cylinder measuring 3 cm across.

The company has revealed that the high flexibility is due to high molecular substance based polyimide film. As if that even remotely helps us understand how it works! Regardless, the fact that we can say with certainty that something like this will be available for use in the near future is exciting.
LG has said that it will be able to manufacture and release a 60 inch, semitransparent ultra-HD TV by 2017.

 

Even though price speculation this early is pointless, we can shed some light regarding its potential uses.
First things first, it will most probably look incredibly attractive and futuristic. But be that as it may, it also has a number of genuine uses. It’ll allow users to carry a TV in their bags and perhaps even their pockets. It will also save you the cost and physical stress of moving since it should be the very definition of portable. So the only additional expectation that we have from LG is that they release is sooner, because it seems like it’s going to be amazing!

The bones of two huge animals similar to elephants are found in an ancient place of Mexico El Fin del Mundo known as End of the world as well. These bones ornaments were one of the oldest sites founds in the subcontinent till now since it was 13 to 14 thousand years old.

The discovery provides a proof that there used to be a distinct culture named CLOVIS who prey on elephant like giant animals referred as gomphotheres. Scientist found several things on that site for example the kind of animal they hunt who had gone when the man arrived in North America.

This not only gives us insight about what they people eat but they also tell us about the culture of Clovis. It was the first most extensive local culture however; it is arguable from when this culture is originated. This discovery put a question mark on the previous one of TEXAS 1988 which was judged as more than 13,400 years old.

Now, scientist realized that it was wrongly theorized and if they were somehow right than this Clovis culture is way older than the Texas one. These facts uncovered from El Fin del Mundo presents us more information on native culture for instance this Sonora Clovis site is now a desert but there was a time when it had spring flood which gave fresh water to them.