Applied Physics

True Cloud Storage: Movie Saved And Played Back In Atoms

'The cloud' is so cliché Microsoft even has housewives using it in commercials.  All it basically means is that you can have a new way for your data to be hacked and stolen.  Unless the company storing it goes out of business and you made no back ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2012 - 6:37pm

The Lotus Leaf And A Lab In A Drop

Diagnostic tools are getting small, small enough to fit in a person's pocket, and one huge benefit for medical researchers would be a way to easily move and even mix small samples of a liquid.  A newly patented surface moves drops along certain paths- ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2012 - 9:00pm

The Sounds Of The Northern Lights- Pinpointed

When you think of the northern lights (aurora borealis) you don't think of sounds. The famous blues, greens and reds rippling in the sky have been described by visitors and also handed down in stories as long as people have been visiting. Astronomers ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2012 - 10:17am

Physics Students Take Time To Debunk New Batman Movie Science

If you watched the new "Star Trek" reboot, you had to chuckle when two heroes were plummeting toward terra firma at terminal velocity and were beamed aboard the Enterprise in the nick of time, suffering barely a bump.  And that business about hid ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 9 2012 - 3:02pm

New Bionic Material Even Sticks To Surfaces Underwater

Everyone knows insects have adhesion on dry surfaces- the liquid surface tension between air, liquids and solids known as the capillary force. In order to stick to dry surfaces insects use  capillary forces with the aid of their oil-covered adhesive setae. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2012 - 6:00pm

Bionic Future Wars: Armor That Mimics Snake Skin

Snake Pliskin, the anti-hero of "Escape From New York", didn't get that name because of his armor, but one day there could be a lot of snake-like soldiers running around. Soldiers, and certainly civilians that can be be helped in the medical ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2012 - 2:06pm

The Carbonator Bottle- Make Beer On The Go

Since it's the weekend and you are reading this, you are intellectually curious about science, which means there is also a statistical likelihood you enjoy beer. Because of the natural confluence of interests that cause science and beer to go hand-in- ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:29pm

The X-Ray laser: Once a weapon, now a tool

The X-Ray laser was a main weapon envisioned for the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).  The descendants of that technology are used to image nano-scale structures the size of individual proteins.  This is a prime example of ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 17 2012 - 11:39am

Weekend Science: Will Your Beer Survive A Nuclear Blast?

The Apocalypse is coming. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:25pm

Understand Turbulence And You Understand The Weather

Now that we had a hot summer, local weather effects are once again proof of global warming. The American mid-west had resisted BBC articles and journal press releases about how global global warming was and stayed about the same before finally doing its pa ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 6:30am