Applied Physics

Bacteria That Eats Cellulose And Produces Electricity

Cellulose is not digestible by humans, that's why it's considered dietary fiber. Plants produce it to use as their cell walls and to provide rigidity to their structure. Along with lignin and hemicellulose, cellulose makes up a large amount of th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2007 - 12:16pm

Strange Climate Math- Driving Is Better For Pollution Than Walking

A recent UN study, Livestock's Long Shadow, basically says you can help the environment more by driving than walking. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2012 - 2:29pm

Magnetic Capsules Protect Insulin Cell Transplants In Type I Diabetes

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a way to overcome a major stumbling block to developing successful insulin-cell transplants for people with type I diabetes. Traditional transplant of the cells, accompanied by necessary immune-suppressing drugs, has ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2007 - 10:40am

Mapping Mountains From Space

How high is Mount Everest exactly? Recent surveys have come up with heights that differ by more than five meters. An expedition called the Geodetic Journey is making its way through China and Tibet to highlight the importance of geodesy and how an accurate ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2007 - 11:34am

Neuroscience Peeks Into The Meaning Of Music

Why do we like some music and not others? Why does music feel right and why does it evoke certain moods? The brain's ability to segment the continual stream of sensory information into perceptual chunks and extract meaning, “event segmentation” functi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2007 - 10:20pm

LSCF Ceramic Tubes Could Eliminate Power Station Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse gas emissions from power stations could be cut to almost zero by controlling the combustion process with tiny tubes made from an advanced ceramic material, claim British engineers. The material, known as LSCF, has the remarkable property of bein ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2007 - 11:36pm

Advanced Biofuels Now Comparable To Grain-Ethanol Due To Higher Grain Costs

‘Second generation’ biorefineries – those making biofuel from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood – have long been touted as the successor to today’s grain ethanol plants, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2007 - 11:53pm

The Beach Is Not Much Healthier Than The Ocean

Just when you thought it was safer to stay out of the water. Microbes that result in beach closures and health advisories when detected at unsafe levels in the ocean also have been detected in the sand, according to a recent study by a team of Stanford sci ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2007 - 10:31am

Implants For Epilepsy

Jenna Rickus, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue, has developed a "living electrode" coated with specially engineered neurons that, when stimulated, releases a neurotransmitter to inhibit epileptic seizures. It's part of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2007 - 1:03pm

Rendering Smoke And Fog With Less Computation

Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer graphics methods. “This is a huge computational ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 1:06pm