Happy Weekend to you! Raining steadily outside my window right now…but it sound peaceful and pleasant in the early morning hours. My garden was thirsty, too…so I won’t complain.
On to the good news…hope it serves to uplift!
Website Launches Lost-And-Found Technology
SendMeHome has launched a free recovery service. Through their SendMeHome.com website, you can now register your personal valuables. Your items will be given a unique ID code. Next you need to either write this code on the item, print out a free label, or order a professional label. If the item is ever lost, the website enables you to communicate anonymously with anyone who might find it in order to arrange its return.
This service assumes the good nature and honesty of strangers by making it easier and safer to return lost items. SendMeHome believes this service will save people money by facilitating the safe return of lost property.
Plastics That Convert Light to Electricity Could Have a Big Impact
Researchers are striving to develop organic solar cells that could be widely used to generate electricity. The goal is to develop cells made from low-cost plastics that will transform at least 10 percent of the sunlight that they absorb into electricity and that can also be easily manufactured.
A research team has found a way to make images of tiny bubbles and channels inside plastic solar cells. These bubbles and channels form within the polymers as they are being created. The researchers are able to measure directly how much current each bubble and channel carries. This increases the understanding of how a solar cell converts light into electricity.
Making solar cells more efficient is important for making them cost effective. If costs can be brought down, these solar cells might offset the need for so much coal-generated electricity in the future.
Bald-Headed, Pink-Faced Songbird Discovered
A bald-headed songbird with distinctive calls has just been discovered in a region of Laos. This discovery is noteworthy because this appears to be the only known bald songbird in Asia.
The bald-headed bulbul showed itself to be outgoing by foraging and noisily moving about the researchers. In is thrush-sized with a greenish body, a light-colored breast and “bluish skin” around the eyes.
The bird appears to be a tree-dweller. Researchers describe the song as “bubbling,” “churring,” and “whistling.” The bird produces at least one song that rises distinctly and ends abruptly.
