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What is spider silk?

Spider silk, also known as gossamer, is a protein fiber spun by spiders. Spiders use their silk to make webs. They can also suspend themselves using it. Many small spiders use silk threads for ballooning, the scientific term for the dynamic kiting spider lings (mostly) used for dispersal. They extrude several threads into the air and let themselves get carried …

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What is soap?

Soap is made largely from fats or oil, with a variety of other ingredients. Before the introduction of soap in the 1st Century A.D. people ‘washed’ themselves and their clothes with fuller’s earth, a fine clay-like substance that loosens oil and dirt. People first made their own soap by saving scraps of fat and boiling them in an iron pot. …

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What is smart antenna technology?

This is a new and promising technology in the field of wireless and mobile communications in which capacity and performance are usually limited by two major impairments — multipath and co-channel interference. Multipath is a condition that arises when a transmitted signal undergoes reflection from various obstacles in the environment. This gives rise to multiple signals arriving from different directions …

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What is sleep walking?

Sleep walkers have problems with the brain stem mechanism concerned with movement. When sleep walking is caused by an imbalance of secretions, or by a poor nervous state (i.e., depression, or anxiety) the problem may be temporary. When it is due to injury of the nerve centers, the problem is permanent. Whatever the causes, we must never be impatient or …

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What is singularity in Physics?

In Physics and Mathematics, singularity is defined as a point at which a complex function is undefined because it is neither differentiable nor single-valued while the function is defined in every neighbourhood of the point. Specifically, a quantity which approaches infinity as another parameter goes to zero. Like 1/x when x approaches zero. In astronomy, singularity is a hypothetical region …

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What is scarlet fever?

This is an infections disease most prevalent among children but which is relatively uncommon now a days. There is a rash on the face and body, accompanied by fever. The rash flakes off after a few days. The principal treatment is penicillin. As with many infectious diseases, once a patient has recovered from scarlet fever he or she is normally …

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What is scalar energy? What are scalar pendants?

Electromagnetic waves which exist only in the vacuum of empty space constitute an ocean of infinite energy called scalar energy. These new waves of energy are called “longitudinal” EM (electromagnetism) to distinguish them from “transverse” EM. Scalar energy was first announced by Thomas E Bearden. However, his ideas have received no noteworthy support in the scientific community. A scalar pendant …

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What is safety glass?

Safety glass is that has been strengthened. there are two kinds of this protective glass laminated and toughened and both were discovered by accident. In the early 1900s Edouard Benedictus, a French chemist, knocked a glass flask on to the floor. Although the glass starred and cracked, it did not break. After examining the flask he realized that a coating …

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