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Iron Dome The Anti-missile Sytem, World is talking about.

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Advancement in technologies does fascinate us but the implementation of some of these technologies  can be magnificent and uninspiring both at the same time. The technologies we are talking about are modern age weapons. One must have heard about the ongoing crisis between Israel and Palestine. Recently, the mobile all-weather air defense system deployed by Israel near the southern city of Beersheva which is around 40 km from The Gaza Strip has been in the news. They have deployed 10 batteries of it around the region. What is Iron Dome? This remarkable Iron dome has been developed by Rafael Advancement Defense System and Israel Aerospace Industry . It is an anti-aircraft warfare system designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from a distance of around 4km to 70 km. An Anti Aircraft Warfare system is designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action from rivals before it can cause any damage on the ground level. This advance...

Xenobot (World's first living machine)

There is a lot of diversity in species around the world. This diversity help us to understand  more about nature. Something like that have happened in USA where scientists from University of Vermont with Tufts University's Allen Discovery Center in their attempt to understand the algorithm that determine form and function by using supercomputer cluster have created a new artifact; a programmable organism which is less than a millimeter in size around .04 inches, which gives it a property to travel through very narrow tubes. HOW IT HAPPENED Scientists collected stem cells from the very early stage of frog embryo, i.e, from the blastula Stage of a clawed frog mostly found in Africa generally known as  Xenopus Laevis. They separated the cells and let them grow under incubator. After number of failed trials scientists were able to create a promising design as approximated by the computers. It comes out to be the  combination of skin cells and heart cells of the organisms. whe...