Applied Physics

End Of Latency: Musicians Rehearse 1,000 Miles Apart With No Delay

Latency is so ingrained into modern communication we almost forget about it but in live or recorded events, like performances or rehearsals over a long distance, it is crippling.  When recording a soundtrack over a pre-recorded base, the latency is percept ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2015 - 12:19pm

Pulsed Electric Fields- An Alternative To Thermal Pasteurization In Milk For Low-Income Countries

Milk has a long been a nutritional and economic staple in western countries but it is quickly susceptible to pathogens quite easily, which is why pasteurization, which kills harmful microbes, is the norm for all but the food fad fringes. Due to harmful mic ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2015 - 9:56am

God Particle Analog In Superconductors Found

The Nobel Prize-winning Higgs boson – the “God particle”- believed to be vital for understanding all of the mass in the universe, was found in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, but that's not where the search began. Instead, the first hint of the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2015 - 8:00am

Light-Harvesting Molecules Absorb Any Color Of Sunlight

In 2005, scientists studying tiny sac-like creatures called sea squirts found bacteria containing two types of chlorophyll (a and b) in cavities inside the squirts' tissues. Those two pigments were soaking up most of the sunlight- the violets, indigos ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2015 - 3:18pm

Liquid Crystal Rodeo

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented level of control over defects in liquid crystals that can be engineered for applications in liquid matter photonics. They can lasso an intangible ring created out of liquid crystal defects- attaching a microsphere ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 8:30am

Accurate Thermoluminescence Dating- Calibration Down To The Last Ion

Thermoluminescence is used on sediment 'grains', which function as natural radiation dosimeters when buried with defects or impurities, to determine age. The valid range is 1,000 to 500,000 years and the technique is used extensively in archeolog ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2015 - 9:26am

Temporal Acoustics: How Do We Hear Time Within Sound?

How does our auditory system represent time within a sound? A new study investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the brain for the perception of sound. Dr. Daniel Bendor, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2015 - 8:46am

Thorium Can Serve As A Nuclear Fuel For Commercial Electricity Generation

The two heaviest naturally occurring radioactive elements (by atomic weight) on the earth are Uranium and Thorium.   Uranium is used as a fuel in modern commercial nuclear power reactors for electricity generation.   A lesser known fact is that thorium co ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Apr 22 2015 - 6:35pm

Generating Broadband Terahertz Radiation From A Microplasma In Air

Researchers have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation. In a paper published this week in Optica, Fabrizio Buccheri and Xi-Cheng Zhang demonstrate that an approach for generating terahertz ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2015 - 10:30am

How Fluid Flow Affects Bacteria

Researchers have used mathematical equations to shed new light on how flowing fluid hinders the movement of bacteria in their search for food. Many bacteria are mobile and inhabit a variety of dynamic fluid environments: from turbulent oceans to medical d ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2015 - 8:01am