Applied Physics

10 Year Window To Prepare For Water Shortages- Conference

The world needs to develop a means of securing the supply of clean fresh water within the next 10 years if we are to tackle a looming water shortage, says a leading expert on water purification and director of the National Science Foundation’s Science and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2008 - 11:52pm

Soot: Calling "Bull" on Global Warming Activists and Politicians

In my previous posting, " Fixing Soot Gains 20 Years against Global Warming" I found myself omitting some rather surely controversial comments in hopes the idea gains acceptance and distribution. I truly believe it's a win-win proposition f ...

Blog Post - Lee Rodgers - Jun 11 2008 - 4:16pm

Detergent Prevents Rejection Of Nerve Grafts

A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country. Research als ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2008 - 1:06pm

AttackDog Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Election Vote Inaccuracy

This year's presidential primaries have already exhibited a number of time-honored traditions in American democracy- attacks, anonymous leaks and partisan journalism. Unfortunately, like other recent presidential elections, those include a new ritual- ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2008 - 1:40pm

'N-variant' Polymorphic Chips Self Adapt To Criteria

Rice University computer engineers have created a way to design integrated circuits that can contain many multiple 'selves.' The chips can assume one identify or a subset of identities at a time, depending on the user's needs. New research s ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2008 - 12:15pm

Phylogenetic Analysis Of Siberian Woolly Mammoths Shows There Were Two Species- And Humans Didn't Kill Them

The woolly mammoth was not one large homogenous group, as scientists previously had assumed, and it did not have much genetic diversity, according to a new genetic study. Woolly mammoths, descended from ancestors in Africa, were widespread in northern Euro ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2008 - 3:43pm

Sound Invisibility- Metamaterials And The Acoustic Cloak

Researchers in Spain have proven that metamaterials, materials defined by their unusual man-made cellular structure, can be designed to produce an acoustic cloak- a cloak that can make objects impervious to sound waves, literally diverting sound waves arou ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2008 - 8:01pm

Confirmed- Genetic Material In Meteorites Is Extraterrestrial In Origin

An important component of early genetic material found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, say scientists from Europe and the USA. They say their research in Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides evidence that life’s raw materials ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2008 - 11:05am

WEAV- Patent Application For A Plasma-Propelled Flying Saucer

University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2008 - 4:27pm

Aegis BMD Goes Ballistic

Lockheed Martin's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a short- range unitary ballistic missile target in the terminal phase of its trajectory during a test at the Pacific Missile Range off ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2008 - 12:13am