Applied Physics

Majesco Entertainment Brings Award-Winning Board Game 'Blokus' To The Playstation(R)Portable System

BRISTOL, England, December 5 /PRNewswire/--- Portable Version Joins Strategic Gameplay with Steambot Chronicles Characters Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ:COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Blokus Porta ...

Article - Newswire - Dec 5 2007 - 10:30am

Say Hello To The 'Flying Fish' Unmanned Aircraft

Howard Hughes had a 'Spruce Goose' but the University of Michigan now has a 'flying fish'- an unmanned seaplane with a 7-foot wingspan believed to be the first seaplane that can initiate and perform its own takeoffs and landings on wate ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2007 - 11:25pm

FluoroPOSS Polymer Makes Oil Repellant Material

Creating a strongly oil-repelling, or “oleophobic” material, has been a long-standing challenge for scientists since there are no natural examples of such a material. “Nature has developed a lot of methods for waterproofing, but not so much oil-proofing,” ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2007 - 6:27pm

Researchers 'Read Thoughts' To Decipher What A Person Is Actually Seeing

Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing of this type of neuron, they can te ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 2:47pm

Will There Be A Move Toward A "Methanol Economy"?

After grabbing headlines for years as the ultimate solution to world energy problems, the “hydrogen economy” has an emerging but lesser-known competitor called the “methanol economy,” according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News. In the artic ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2007 - 3:06pm

New Shape-Memory Polymer Can 'Remember' Its Original Form When Heated

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a shape-memory rubber that may enable applications as diverse as biomedical implants, conformal face-masks, self-sealing sutures, and “smart” labels. The material, described in the journal Advanced ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2007 - 9:42pm

Progress: Discovering How The Contractile Ring In Cell Division Works

Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the end of each cell division, according to a report in Science Express. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2007 - 10:37am

Nanotechnology: Engineered Blood Vessels Could Lead To Use In Human Tissue

MIT scientists have found a way to induce cells to form parallel tube-like structures that could one day serve as tiny engineered blood vessels. The researchers found that they can control the cells' development by growing them on a surface with nano- ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2007 - 4:51pm

Tunguska Revisited: A Smaller Asteroid Did It?

On June 30, 1908 a stunning explosion rocked the forest near the Tunguska river in Siberia. Estimates were that an asteroid exploded in the air a few kilometers above the earth's surface with a force 1,000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A ne ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2007 - 12:50pm

The Tectonic Impact On Evolution

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2007 - 1:41am