Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes

The story begins with alpine bushfires in Victoria, which started on 1st December 2006 when over 70 fires were started by a band of thunderstorms and lightning strikes which moved across the state. This was an early start to the fire season following an extremely dry autumn and several years of drought conditions before [...]

Famous Waterfalls of the World

Commonly formed when a river is still young, a waterfall is that place in the river, when the flowing water falls steeply as it flows over either a cliff or an area that is steep in nature. The flowing water generally falls a long distance and with a great amount of force. Waterfalls are generally [...]

Eyeball camera better than the human eye

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The “eyeball camera” has a 3.5x optical zoom, takes sharp images and is only the size of a nickel.

Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human [...]