Applied Physics

Sociological Spin: Stating There Is A Genetic Cause Gets Anorexics Less Blame

When people in a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study were told that anorexia nervosa had a biological or genetics-based cause they were less likely to put any personal accountability on anorexics than when they were told it was personal or cu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2008 - 10:08pm

Complex Biology Goes Mathematical: A Numerical Model For Fruit Fly Eyes

Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal. Researchers at Northwestern University have now created a functional e ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2008 - 9:43pm

Whole Organ Decellularization Yields A Beating Heart Created In The Laboratory

University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by takin ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2008 - 4:11pm

Baryonyx- Dinosaur With The Head Of A Fish-Eating Crocodile

An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift fish from the water. Dr Emily Rayfield at the U ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2008 - 8:05pm

Theory: Technique For Blocking T-Cell Migration Could Halt Auto-Immune Diseases

Researchers have found a way to selectively block the ability of white blood cells to “crawl” toward the sites of injury and infection when such mobility drives disease, according to a study published today in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The resu ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2008 - 11:22am

Bionic Eyes Get A Step Closer- Contact Lenses With Circuitry

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purp ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2008 - 1:17pm

More Discoveries About The Weirdness Of Water

Water has fascinated scientists for thousands of years. Along with being the elixir of life, it acts in counter-intuitive ways like expanding when frozen while most liquids contract. Sometimes the best way to understand a mystery is to create one just like ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2008 - 11:29am

Is This The End For Blu-Ray?

Yes, you read that right. I said Blu-ray. Ever since the defection of Warner Bros. from HD-DVD to Blu-ray a few days before the Consumer Electronics Show(CES), every expert who knows anything at all about this industry has predicted the demise of HD-DVD. A ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 21 2008 - 11:58am

F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Gets A Spot In The National Museum Of The U.S. Air Force

Raptor 03, the third F-22 manufactured by the team of Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney is now part of a new exhibit at The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. One of nine F-22s built for engineering, manufacture and development testing, R ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 9:30am

“Greener” Cleaning Products Spark Industry Changes

Amid growing consumer demand for more environmentally-friendly cleaning products, chemical suppliers are stepping-up their efforts to provide greener ingredients with the same effectiveness of conventional ones, according to an article in Chemical & En ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2008 - 12:17pm