Kitesurfing, for some, is a lifestyle, for others, the best way to feel free, for most of us is just a bizarre sport. Kitesurfing is an extreme sport that combines the kite flying and floating on water.

Imagine a surfer uses waves not to put in motion, but wind power. The idea is very good, the wind from the ocean coasts and seas or Great Lakes areas can help to get extremely high speed (record is 50.57 knots, ie 93.66 km/h, owned by Alex Caizergues, kitesurfer from France, in Luderitz, Namibia) and especially to help you make great leaps, to fly over the waves. Read more

Hermit crabs live in shells abandoned by mollusks. French designer helps them solve all real estates problems by creating a glass shell home – an artificial shell, Crabitats.

These crustaceans are in a constant need of a sheler throughout their lives. Now their problem is solved! Designers created several types of artificial glass shells of different colors and sizes. However, no one is planning to throw them to the sea – wild hermit crabs still have to find their homes themselves. But it’s a great solution for aquarists and their pet hermit crabs! Read more

Yes, this rainbow can honestly tell this leprechaun that his gold is safely stored at the end of the rainbow. After all, have you ever known anyone who has ever even gotten to the end of rainbow, even with a pot of gold tempting them? Even if a rainbow is right in front of you, it always still seems to stay out of reach. And, the concept of gold being at the rainbow is actually a historical rearrangement of the original concept that your chance of finding the end of a rainbow was about the same as your finding a pot of gold.

Maybe it is best not to try to analyze one of nature’s magical wonders as a rainbow too much (care to vote for your favorite water body?), as even the concept of the rainbow being a bow (arc) is not entirely true. Did you know that if the horizon wasn’t in the way, a rainbow would take the shape of a circle (as seen from an airplane, as in the picture below)? Read more

BLK Water is infused with fulvic trace minerals, which play a critical role in the growth of plant life — assisting in the transport and absorption of nutrients inside the plant cell. Once the minerals are added to pure water, the water turns black naturally without the use of any artificial dyes or colorings. The packaging assignment on this was a dream job come true for someone. Read more

Scientists at Aston University (UK) have identified a new mechanism responsible for regulating the flow of water into and out of cells. This discovery will improve understanding of how the body maintains its water balance in health and disease.

A model for the direct regulation of rapid cellular water flow. (Credit: Image courtesy of Aston University)

Proteins called aquaporins (AQPs), which allow water flow into and out of cells were discovered by scientists in California, twenty years ago. These proteins, embedded in cell membranes, constitute the cellular ‘plumbing system’. However, the mechanism which regulates their function under different conditions has remained unclear for many years, such as the control of water flow in the kidney. Read more