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Ghost Beetles and White to the Extreme
2008-03-10 01:35:00 Scientists have started looking to nature in order to develop better designs and materials, like adhesives based on geckos’ foot pads, coating surfaces imitating shark skin to easy-clean surfaces inspired by lotus leaves. Now, they have found a new model. It looks like a ghost beetle. Or like being covered by an extremely white mold. ... More About: News , Ghost , Extreme , White
How Do Bats Fly?
2008-03-10 01:35:00 Putting bat wings on the mythical vampires makes them more efficient than suspected. Because a study using the last technology on high-resolution, three-dimensional video recordings offered for the first time details on how these amazing mammals fly, discovering unique abilities. The research showed that bats use a totally different lift-generating mechanism than birds and ... More About: News , Bats
Polymer Wrinkled Skin
2008-03-10 01:35:00 An American-Korean team developed a new method for making wrinkled hard skins on the surface of polymers employing a focused ion beam. By controlling the direction and intensity of the ion beam, they literally carved patterns on flat areas of polydimethylsiloxane, a silicon-based organic polymer (the main ingredient in Silly Putty), by changing direction and ... More About: News , Skin , Polymer
University of California is ready to bid for Los Alamos Lab
2008-03-08 11:12:00 The University of California has managed the nuclear weapons lab in the New Mexico desert since it was created in 1943 as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. The past several years, however, have included repeated security lapses and procurement abuses. The Energy Department decided to allow other universities, corporations and nonprofit organizations to bid on the ... More About: News , Ready
Hydrogen Powered Cars Will Save Lives
2008-03-08 11:12:00 Most of us know that by using fossil fuels we are slowly but surely destroying our atmosphere and implicitly our health. And one of the biggest sources of pollution resulted from fossil fuels is represented by cars. The solution is relatively simple: switching to hydrogen fuel-cells. In a recent study published on Thursday, it was shown that ... More About: News , Cars , Hydrogen , Lives , Save
Danish Researchers Announce a New Type of Plastic Solar Panels
2008-03-08 11:12:00 According to AP, a team of Danish researchers said on Friday that they have developed a new type of plastic solar panel that has a much longer life span than the previous versions. In the same time, it Related PostShanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar PanelsAnother Type of Nano-technology Inspired by NatureA New Type of Three-Dimensional Microscope ... More About: News , Plastic , Solar Panels
Shanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar Panels
2008-03-08 11:12:00 According to China Daily, a government-funded project, to turn Shanghai ’s roofs into sites for solar-energy production, will soon be submitted for final approval. If the project becomes operational, 100,000 of the 6 million roofs in Shanghai, a city plagued by chronic power shortages, will be used to supply solar energy to local residents, revealed Professor Cui ... More About: News , Solar , Solar Panels
iRobot launches PackBot Explorer
2008-03-08 11:12:00 iRobot Corp. today introduced the iRobot Pack Bot Explorer , a new addition to iRobot’s combat-proven line of PackBot robots. With new intelligent surveillance equipment, including three cameras, and greater flexibility to customize with sensors and other tools, PackBot Explorer is the ideal all-purpose robot for searching hazardous areas before soldiers and first responders are exposed to risk. ... More About: News
?Gadonanotubes? Greatly Outperform Existing MRI Contrast Agents
2008-03-08 11:12:00 Researchers at Rice University, the Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Houston and the Ecole Polytechnique F Related PostDesign of Robots and Buildings Greatly Improved by A New Set of Theorems More About: News , Agents , Contrast
Nanotechnology, Progress vs. Cold Cash
2008-03-08 11:12:00 Due to some really smart people, nowadays the prefix “nan (o-)” doesn Related PostAnother Type of Nano-technology Inspired by NatureNanotechnology Offers New Hopes for Reverting Brain InjuriesUsing Nanotechnology to Preserve Wood from RottingNanoInk and SII Nanotechnology (SIINT) Announced a Licensing & Co-Development Agreement for Photomask RepairCold Bastards Sleep Better More About: News , Cash , Progress
USA Pumps Big Money Into Power Grid Protection
2008-03-08 11:12:00 Scientists from the University of Illinois, Cornell University, Dartmouth College and Washington State University together with electricity companies will be involved for the next five years in developing controls and sensors for the national power network. The project follows the largest blackout in U.S. History, which left millions of people in Canada without power in August 2003. “It ... More About: News , Power , Money , Pumps , Grid
Fuel Cell Power Source with Twice the Energy Density of Lithium Batteries
2008-03-08 11:12:00 UltraCell Corporation announces a new fuel cell power source for portable electronic devices that has twice the energy density of lithium batteries. UltraCell’s reformed methanol fuel cell (RMFC) technology uses a revolutionary micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated methanol solution. This new portable power system has the power density of a ... More About: News , Power , Batteries , Energy , Fuel
Physicists Develop the Battery That Uses Urine
2008-03-08 11:12:00 Physicists in Singapore have succeeded in creating the first paper battery that generates electricity from urine. This new battery will be the perfect power source for cheap, disposable healthcare test-kits for diseases such as diabetes. This research is published today in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. Scientists in research groups around ... More About: News , Battery , Develop , Urine
What Happens in Your Brain When You Acknowledge Making A Mistake?
2008-03-06 14:23:00 University of Michigan researchers used an imaging scan to view how the human brain reacts when someone makes a costly mistake. The scientists found that the brain’s rostral anterior cingulate cortex, or rACC, became much more active when a person realized he or she had made an error of some consequence. However, when the mistake ... More About: News , Brain
Should We Become Vegetarians?
2008-03-06 14:23:00 We need our proteins. But where should we get them from? Pigs or peas? What is the best solution for sustainable food production and consumption? That’s what the multidisciplinary Dutch research program, PROFETAS (PROtein Foods, Environment, Technology and Society), has been studying. Take the following facts: To produce one kilogram of animal protein, three ... More About: News , Vegetarians
Measuring the Global Mood of the Bloggers Community
2008-03-06 14:23:00 Live Journal enables its users to attach a mood tag to their posts. This information about the mood of each blogger is public and has now been centralized by an interesting site called Mood Views. MoodViews analyzes the overall mood of the blogger community comprising around 2 million people worldwide and writing around 150.000 posts daily. ... More About: News , Community , Global , Bloggers
The Neurons that Judge the Value of Things
2008-03-06 14:23:00 When you have to choose between conflicting options, you attribute them certain values and then you choose the one you find most valuable. The options are conflicting because resources are limited Related PostHow Neurons Grow and Connect to Each OtherNeurons that Distinguish Swagger from SwayAnxious Adults Judge Facial Cues Faster More About: News , Things
Brain Study: Observation Shuts Down the Observer!
2008-03-06 14:23:00 It is common to think that when people observe something there is some part in the brain that centralizes the information and interprets it and that this part is the self. However, Israeli scientists, using fMRI brain scans, have now discovered that when you observe something more intensely you actually observe yourself less Related PostWhat Happens ... More About: News , Study , Brain , Observer
When the Chimpanzees Escape and Start Hunting the Tourists
2008-03-06 14:23:00 A 20 year-old chimpanzee, named Bruno, has killed a Sierra Leonean driver that worked in the zoo and severely injured three American sub-contractors working at the US embassy. The pack, of 27 chimps, escaped from their cage at the Tagucama Chimp Sanctuary and 18 of them, including Bruno, “the alpha male”, are currently still at ... More About: News , Start , Tourists , Escape , Hunting
How Can You Sneak Up on an Animal?
2008-03-06 14:23:00 The psychologist Niko Troje’s young daughter observed that she can approach wild rabbits more easily on bicycle than on foot. But when she asked her father why is that he could answer. “I didn’t have an answer for her then,” said Troje, of Queen’s University. “Now, I think I have one.” He, Dr. Cord Westhoff from ... More About: News , Animal
Tatuaje mai usor de sters
2008-03-06 14:23:00 Related PostIs Zhen de Shou safe?What is a Van de Graaff Generator? More About: Tatuaje
Why Do Letters Look the Way They Do and How Did Reading Change Our Brains?
2008-03-06 14:23:00 According to a new study, the shapes of letters and symbols used, throughout history, by the world’s many cultures were not determined by the ease of writing them, but by the ease of reading them. All the shapes used in various writing systems, from the Greek alphabet to the Chinese symbols, may have arisen to ... More About: News , Reading , Change , Letters , Brains
Equality Leads to Better Sex and More Happiness
2008-03-06 14:23:00 People in more developed countries have better, more satisfying sex than in the poorer countries. This is mainly because in developed countries people are healthier and in better shape and there is also more sex related information available. But how about differences between developed countries? A global study conducted by sociologist Edward Laumann, who is ... More About: News , Leads , Happiness , Equality
Haptic Communication: Two Are Better than One
2008-03-05 05:34:00 Take two people and put both of them in change of maneuvering a crane. But don’t allow them to either talk or see each other. Would they manage to cooperate or would they simply hinder each other? Such a communication, via touch and motion, is called haptic communication, from the Greek ‘haptiko’. While many other kinds ... More About: News , Communication
Phones Have Changed, but the Girls Have Not
2008-03-05 05:34:00 The phones have changed a lot since their invention and, naturally, so did the advertising for phones. After all, how could you advertise the last model of the trendiest cell phone by using commercials from the 1960s? However, Rachel Campbell and her colleagues from University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have revealed that teen girls aged 14 ... More About: News , Girls , Phones
Mapping ?Self? and ?Other? in the Brain
2008-03-05 05:34:00 Neurologists may say that your “self” is a function of your brain, but you might have a different view of what your self is. So neurologists are asking now: where in your brain is this view of your self located? And if we’re at it, where is your view of others located? And how about ... More About: News , Brain , Mapping , The Brain
Gossip is a Good Thing?!
2008-03-05 05:33:00 Could there be anything good in bad gossip? “We certainly do not deny that gossip behavior has it drawbacks. Still, if there is a positive side of gossip, we believe it is that shared, mild, negative attitudes toward others can create and/or amplify interpersonal intimacy,” researchers write. Jennifer K. Bosson, from the department of Psychology at the ... More About: News , Gossip , Good , Thing
Schizophrenics Don?t Understand Body Language
2008-03-05 05:33:00 Researchers have shown that even people with mild forms of schizophrenia and who are under medication have difficulties in understanding body language. This creates an important social handicap for them, as people often, even unconsciously, use body posture and movement to convey additional meanings. Previous studies had shown that patients with schizophrenia have trouble deciphering ... More About: News , Body , Language , Understand
Apes Make Plans and Have a Certain Cognitive Understanding of the World
2008-03-05 05:33:00 Is planning ahead a uniquely human capacity? Researchers have now found that, although apes cannot plan their vacations, they can make short-term plans. Bonobos and orangutans can save tools that help them access food in the future. To test bonobos’ and orangutans’ ability to plan ahead, psychologists Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call of the Max ... More About: News , World , Apes , Plans , The World
Careful What You Eat or You Might Have Twins
More articles from this author:2008-03-05 05:33:00 An obstetrician, well known for his treatment and research of multiple-birth pregnancies, has found that dietary changes can affect a woman’s chances of having twins, and that her overall chance is determined by a combination of diet and heredity. Gary Steinman, an attending physician at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New Hyde Park, ... More About: News , Twins , Careful 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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