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False Widow Spider Nest Connor Stebbing and Brad White, two teenagers from Laindon, found a nest of Britain’s most venomous false widows – in their electricity meter box! If you don't know, false widows are a type of venomous spiders, known as the most venomous spiders in the UK. Venemous false widows were discovered in the meter box at Read more...

Hubbell have launched a new line of Industrial Lighting. It is called the LunaBay Series LED Highbay. This is highbay lighting with a higher performance. With this new launch Hubbell have set a new target for competitors to beat. The new fixture has been specially designed to deliver an exceptional combination of low glaring light that is both Read more...

More and more medical professional have started to incorporate LED Lights into their operating room, for a number of good reasons. The LED surgical lights allow the amount of light to be increased while still maintaining a cool temperature, using half the electrical energy of the traditional halogen bulbs. LEDs also have a longer life span Read more...

For this past 20 years, research scientist Steven DenBaars at UC Santa Barbara, has been doing work on LED lights. He has eagerly tried to get them to a point where they are the true heir of Edison’s ‘Electric Bulb’. However, DenBaars has now decided to take it one step further by moving on to the next big thing ‘lasers’. Experts say Read more...

An incident at a school in Oklahoma, has raised the question how safe is the school. A faulty heater in an elementary school in Oklahoma City left 6 people in hospital on Monday. Luckily, no serious injuries have been reprted. This incident has highlighted that it is not law in the state of Oklahoma to have public schools fitted with carbon Read more...

The Rusal smelter in Kandalaksha might be an exception, unlike the other industrial enterprises at the Kola Peninsula which are not greatly known for their tidiness, efficiency or environmental standards. The industrial plant shines bright into the Arctic landscape from the southern part of the Murmansk Oblast, where it is located. The 60 year Read more...

Simpalarm has now invented a device which has the ability to monitor people who live at home independently. The Simpalarm will alert relatives or carers, if there are any anomalies detected prying around the premises. The device was originally designed as a burglar alarm by James Savage, director of Simpalarm due to the high amount of burglaries Read more...

In America, a new cutting edge technology has been created which will be the marking stone to change and upgrade the hand dryer industry; it is called the ‘eXtremeAir cPc hand dryer’. The US Company ‘American Dryer’ located in Livonia, Michigan, have made a breakthrough technology called the Cold Plasma Clean which is undergoing the Read more...

It has been proven that there are some solar cells which are able to convert sunlight into electricity more efficiently when loud music is being played as long as it is pop or rock. Although solar cells are traditionally made of silicon they can easily convert sunlight into electricity. Steve Dunn from Queen Mary University, London and James Read more...

Las Vegas has been well known for its famous saying “What happens in Vegas…Stays in Vegas!” However this is all set to change as Vegas is working on new street lighting known as “intellistreet” lighting. These new lights are set to monitor everything that happens in Vegas through its new technology. The wireless LED and computer operated Read more...