Applied Physics

Sandia Supports Development Of High-caliber, Self-propelled NLOS Cannon System

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have emerged as key players in a state-of-the-art program for the U.S. Army that focuses on the design and manufacturing of a lightweight, high-caliber, self-propelled cannon system. The weapon syst ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 2:43pm

Helping Pollution-Cleaning Bacteria Clean Up Toxic Waste

Bacteria called Dehalococcoides Ethenogenes, discovered in Ithaca sewage sludge in 1997 by James Gossett, Cornell professor of civil and environmental engineering, are now in wide use to detoxify some carcinogenic chemicals but they could be used for a lot ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2007 - 10:09am

Do-It-Yourself Anti-Satellite System

Satellite tracking software freely available on the Internet and a smattering of textbook physics could be used by any organisation that can get hold of an intermediate range rocket to mount an unsophisticated attack on military or civilian satellites. Suc ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 7:59pm

18-year-old Singaporean Student To Present Adult Stem Cell Research Paper At Two Conferences

18-year old Nicholas Tan Xue-Wei will soon depart for the U.S. to present a research paper at The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07), June 25 to 28, in Las Vegas. Before returning home t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2007 - 12:47pm

Chemistry In Second Life Article

Sarah Everts from Chemical and Engineering News has just published an article about chemistry activities in Second Life. Drexel Island got a mention: My avatar was then deposited at a place in Second Life called Orientation Island. As I walked my avatar in ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Jun 23 2007 - 2:59pm

Transparent Transistors Will Bring 'Full Motion Video' Newspapers

Researchers have used nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits, a step that promises a broad range of applications, from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics to "smart cards" and "heads-up" di ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2007 - 9:51pm

Getting To The Root Of Plant Growth

A £9.2m research centre at the University of Nottingham will break new ground in our understanding of plant growth and could lead to the development of drought-resistant crops for developing countries. The Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB) will f ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 7:46pm

Sleuthing How Multiple Sclerosis Begins

Researchers have discovered that calcium ions could play a crucial role in multiple sclerosis by activating enzymes that degrade the fatty sheath that insulates nerve fibers. Learning exactly how the myelin sheath is degraded might enable scientists to det ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 5:32am

Old School Computing- People And The Semantic Web

USC computer scientist Kristina Lerman thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning- people. She says that extracting 'metadata' ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 11:03am

Study Reveals New, Cost-efficient Method For Creating Portable Hydrogen Fuel Cells

A new paper published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society proposes a new method of producing hydrogen for portable fuel cells. This new method negates the need for the complicated and expensive equipment currently used. With their ability to work st ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 10:32pm