Applied Physics
- Heal Non-Healing Wounds With Cold Plasma
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Russian scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS), and Gamaleya Research Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology found that treating cells w ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2016 - 6:28am
- Necessary Interconnections?
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An Interconnection Between All Things? All matter within the universe is interconnected and holds within it, the memory of its interconnection. The laws of motion are an example of this interconnectedness. The motion of any one item or object literally do ...
Blog Post - Scott Perry - Nov 12 2016 - 3:45pm
- Highly Effective Nanostructures From Fundamental Optimization Strategy
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The engineering mindset often dismisses philosophy as useless for science. However, those who understand science or philosophy deeply also know that philosophy drives the cutting edge of science as much as scientific thinking is at the cutting edge of phil ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 29 2016 - 3:58am
- Lasers May Provide A Cure For Citrus Greening Disease
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Florida's citrus industry has been struggling with citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB), a disease caused by a bacterium called Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) that destroys fruit production and eventually kills the tree. An eff ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2017 - 9:53am
- Stop Kiln Yourself To Make Ceramics
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The manufacture of cement, bricks, bathroom tiles and porcelain crockery normally requires a great deal of heat: a kiln is used to fire the ceramic materials at temperatures well in excess of 1,000°C. Now, material scientists from ETH Zurich have develope ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2017 - 3:45pm
- New Form Of Matter: Supersolid Is Both Superfluid And Crystalline At The Same Time
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By using lasers to manipulate a superfluid gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the team was able to coax the condensate into a quantum phase of matter that has a rigid structure — like a solid, and can flow without viscosity, a key characteristic of a ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2017 - 6:06am
- Solar Plus Batteries Will At Least Double The Cost For Electricity
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Solar power is all the rage, at least for government officials who don't understand physics but do spend a lot of time with environmental (and solar panel) lobbyists. Even in a small country like Belgium, solar can't even meet half of energy need ...
Article - News Staff - May 15 2017 - 7:40am
- Using Microbes To Convert Natural Gas Into Electricity
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Natural gas has seen a resurgence due to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") which has allowed geologists and engineers to extract it from wells that were previously considered unusable. CO2 emissions from energy have plummeted back to early 1990s ...
Article - News Staff - May 17 2017 - 8:39am
- New Heights In Systemic Corrupt Science: Another Hockey Stick; Would You Fund For Retracting?
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Well known: Critical science is career suicide. But did you know you are not even allowed to warn the community about fraud committed yourself? Welcome to science, where we reject the scientific method because it slows down publications, and call the publi ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 22 2017 - 2:08am
- Water Structure: It's Different At Nanoscale Size And Different Temperature
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The surface of water drops at 100 nm size changes with temperature. At room temperature, the surface water molecules of these droplets have much stronger interactions than a normal water surface. The structural difference corresponds to a difference in tem ...
Article - News Staff - May 24 2017 - 6:09am