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Chefs Could Reduce Calories In Restaurant Meals But Is That What People Want?

Chefs Could Reduce Calories In Restaurant Meals But Is That What People Want?

Nov 07 2010 | comment(s)

Most chefs don't know how many calories are in the dishes they prepare.   7 percent were not at all familiar and 49 percent were only somewhat familiar.   Taste is what people pay for at $50 a sitting, not a nanny, yet restaurants could play an important role in helping to reduce the growing obesity epidemic by creating reduced-calorie meals, according to Penn State researchers. 
Fuggedaboudit (The Easy Way)

Fuggedaboudit (The Easy Way)

Nov 06 2010 | comment(s)

If only you could ditch that traumatic memory, that craving, that debilitating fear of ventriloquist dummies (autonomatonophobia)! But these tendencies are so deeply ingrained that try as you might, you can't dig them out. Maybe you can drug them out.

The process of recalling a memory is like a rolling snowball——a trigger provides the first ball, which then rolls through various parts of your brain picking up the additional elements it needs to become a full memory.
Biofilm Infections: Horror Shows Not Made In Hollywood

Biofilm Infections: Horror Shows Not Made In Hollywood

Nov 06 2010 | comment(s)

Many bacteria spend much of their existence within a matrix that they create, called biofilm. Biofilm consists of mucopolysaccharide (or slime-like, think “The Blob” from the 1950s) structures produced by microorganisms as a defense mechanism against their environment. 

More Science Fair Secrets

More Science Fair Secrets

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

A good science fair project typically takes less time and is more interesting to do, than a bad one.  Does this make sense?  Do you want to spend extra time having less fun?  As a sequel to last year's "Secrets of a Science Fair Judge", I present to you my suggestions for making your science fair project go faster, be more fun, and still get you a higher grade.

Choose an Interesting Question
The First ZZ Event In CMS!!

The First ZZ Event In CMS!!

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

As beautiful as they get, or even more so. It is hard to express the beauty of the event that the CMS collaboration published today. CMS, which stands for "compact muon solenoid", is one of the two main detectors operating at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (the other is ATLAS). The duo is seeking evidence for the Higgs boson, the only elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model that still awaits to be discovered.
Guest Post: Giorgio Chiarelli, Tevatron's Silver Wedding

Guest Post: Giorgio Chiarelli, Tevatron's Silver Wedding

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

Giorgio Chiarelli is a particle physicist. His research activity has been based largely at the Fermi laboratory near Chicago, US, at the CDF experiment. In 1994-96 he actively participated in the discovery of the top quark and in the first measurements of that particle's properties. Later, after directing the construction of a part of the new CDF detector, he moved its research interests toward the search for the Higgs boson. Currently he is a INFN research director in Pisa, where he leads the CDF-Pisa group. In the most recent years he dealt with problems connected with the communication of science.
Free Communicating Climate Science Webinar November 11th

Free Communicating Climate Science Webinar November 11th

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

Climate science is suffering a crisis of confidence among the public but the data is there - what climate scientists need are effective climate change communication strategies and ways to engage the people on the street who influence policy decisions.
Synthetic Biology: Living Buildings May Help Fight Global Warming

Synthetic Biology: Living Buildings May Help Fight Global Warming

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

One solution to reducing the environmental footprint of buildings is to create 'living' materials using synthetic biology and cover them with it.  Those materials could eventually produce water in desert environments or harvest sunlight to produce biofuels.

Researchers from the University of Greenwich, the University of Southern Denmark, University of Glasgow and University College London are working with an architectural firm and a building materials manufacturer to use protocells - bubbles of oil in an aqueous fluid sensitive to light or different chemicals – to fix carbon from the atmosphere or to create a coral-like skin, which could protect buildings.
Cosmic Alignment - Not Just For Ancient Religions Any More

Cosmic Alignment - Not Just For Ancient Religions Any More

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

The Herschel Space Observatory is the largest telescope in space.   It's capable of detecting longer-wavelength light than the human eye can, light in the far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is the type emitted by galaxies lined up behind other ones in the foreground.

The result is that scientists are discovering hundreds of new galaxies through brighter galaxies in front of them that deflect their faint light back to the massive Herschel telescope, an effect identified by Albert Einstein a century ago known as cosmic gravitational lensing.
Environmental Disasters - Soil Takes Decades To Fully Recover

Environmental Disasters - Soil Takes Decades To Fully Recover

Nov 05 2010 | comment(s)

With the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the toxic mud spill in Hungary, the big question is how long will recovery take?   Unfortunately, yet at least scientifically apt, is that there are previous disasters to help answer those questions.