Since 2002, the city of Dubai (capital of the United Arab Emirates) has seen an increase in private real estate investment in recreating Dubai’s skyline with projects as The Palm Islands, The World Islands and Burj Dubai. The Palm Islands is a series of artificial islands for the coast of Dubai on which major commercial […]

Everybody knows that whales are those creatures which can dive extremely deep; the Cuvier’s beaked whale is the winner, diving deep down to 2000 meters in search of prey, the deepest depth known for any mammal. That’s why scientists are having trouble explaining why, in response to naval sonar testing, this champion cetacean sometimes succumbs […]

Past September, I’ve done a course of paragliding in France. You learned how to fly a paraglide on your own, with the amazing result of 5 high-flights: making an individual flight with a minimal height difference of 500 meters. Luckily, in our group, we had a professional photographer and journalist, who made photos and an […]

Haven’t you every wanted to just remove yourself from your body, just for a while, and see how that feels like? Well, that might become reality, instead of science-fiction. Specialists of the Flemish University Hospital in Antwerp have accidentally aroused a patient into a out-of-body-experience, while trying to treat the patient from a annoying buzz […]

The brain produces activity non-stop. The activity increases with stimuli we can present in the laboratory, such as a picture, a touch or a sound. However, the activity of the brain at rest — the so-called “baseline” activity — may prove to be the most important aspect of our mental lives. Monitoring the awake, resting […]