Applied Physics

Overton's Rule says that the easier it is for a chemical to dissolve in a lipid (fat) the easier and faster it will be transported into a cell. The Rule was first outlined in the 1890s by Ernst Overton of the University of Zürich. He declared that sub ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2008 - 4:40pm

Conservation Zones That Worked For Fishing All Wrong For Global Warming, Says Group

Conservation zones, or 'No-take areas' (NTAs), that were set up to protect fish in the late 1960s and early 1970s are in the wrong place to protect vulnerable coral reefs from the effects of global warming, an international team of scientists war ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2008 - 8:58pm

Engineers Design Artificial Bones That Naturally 'Blend' Into Tendons

Engineers at Georgia Tech have used skin cells to create artificial bones that mimic the ability of natural bone to blend into other tissues such as tendons or ligaments. The artificial bones display a gradual change from bone to softer tissue rather than ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2008 - 10:34am

Solved: 30 Year Puzzle Of Plasma Heating

Researchers at the Ruhr University in Bochum (RUB) say they have discovered the secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas. The Bochum researchers at the Center of Excellence “Plasma Science and Technology” (CPST) at the Ruhr University say this ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2008 - 12:05pm

Ancient Koronis Space Rocks Reveal The Origin Of Cosmic Dust

The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out yesterday. The research, published in the journal Geology, shows that some of the cosmic dust falling to Earth comes from an ancient ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2008 - 10:23am

Nanonets May Boost Energy 'Harvesting'

Researchers using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, titanium and silicon, have grown wires into a two-dimensional network of branches that resemble flat, rectangular netting, Boston College assistant professor of chemistry Dunwei Wang and h ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2008 - 4:35pm

Students, Can You Make A Better Supersonic Airliner?

WASHINGTON-- A new NASA competition is challenging students in high school and college to research and describe a small, supersonic airliner that could enter commercial service in the next decade. During the upcoming academic year, individuals and teams of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2008 - 10:54pm

Will Mona Lisa Smile More When She's Clean? The Science Of Art Conservation

Tom Learner isn’t afraid of taking a scalpel to multi-million dollar Monets or Picassos. But he also knows his way around equipment that sounds pretty high tech: Scanning Electron Microscopes, Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays, and Mass Spectrometers. He ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Sep 9 2008 - 4:17pm

Get Back In The Car: Vegetarian IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri Says Less Meat Will Slow Global Warming More

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (The IPCC and Al Gore were joint winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize) is calling on individuals to cut their carbon footprints by transforming their diets at a lecture hosted ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2008 - 1:38pm

This Day In Science History: September 8th

Scientific happenings, big and small, on this day in history First, let’s get started with today’s quiz: What common household item, used in more than 90 percent of American homes, was developed on this day in 1930 by Richard G. Drew? As a little hint, des ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Sep 8 2008 - 12:57pm