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Crop Circles

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Crop circles are generally artistic works done on crop fields like that of cereals or oil seeds. The process is done by flattening the standing crop or just cutting it in a fixed pattern. The concept of "crop circles" began with the original late-1970s hoaxes by Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. They said that they were inspired by the Tully "saucer nest" case in Australia, where a farmer claimed to first have seen a UFO, then found a flattened circle of swamp reeds. But how far claiming,"CROP CIRCLES ARE CREATED BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS" is right? Since becoming the focus of widespread media attention in the 1980s, crop circles have become the subject of speculation by various paranormal, ufological, and anomalistic investigators ranging from proposals that they were created by bizarre meteorological phenomena to messages from aliens. There has also been speculation that crop circles have a relation to ley lines. Many New Age groups incorporate c...

Wolverine Cloth: The Self Healing Material

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If you've watched the famous Marvel movie "X-Men"(2000) or "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" or just "Logan" you must be familiar to indestructible superhero Wolverine. It is illustrated in fiction that the hero can self heal his own skin after any injury to it. Getting idea from this, scientists of Los Angeles have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and used to improve batteries, electronic devices and robots. The low-cost, easy to produce soft rubber-like material can stretch 50 times its original length, researchers say,after being cut, it can completely re-attach, or heal, in 24 hours at room temperature. In fact, after only five minutes of healing the material can be stretched two times its original length. The findings from researchers, including those from University of California, Riverside in the US, represent the first time scientist...