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- The physics of flocking in 3-D
- You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Photos: Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight
- The physicist gets an "amazing" experience of weightlessness and a rare moment out of his wheelchair. His next goal: "Space here I come."
- Image galleries 2007-04-27
- Helper (zip)
- Helper is a software program intended to assist physicists, engineers, and other scientists and experts in performing computations. The program allows you to find quickly the majority of physical constants.
- Software downloads 2007-01-31
- Great balls of fire
- According to National Geographic News, two Brazilian physicists of the Federal University of Pernambuco have created artificial ball lightning in their lab. Like the ones you may have seen during a thunderstorm, these ball lightning move erratically and burn whatever they touch, even drilling a hole in one of the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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- Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards
- Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cardsA dead duckAny time I see "proprietary", it just reminds me that people will use it because they have to, until the next big thing comes along. Theres also the issue of cost.Speaking about the reality, there is a lot of internet movie copying...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Digipede Network Version 2 Launched
- Once again, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Digipede. As usual, I was impressed with their pragmatic approach and the fact that they're trying very hard to make grid computing/high performance computing concepts available to everyone by utilizing Microsoft's .NET architecture as a platform. This...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Smart holograms to monitor our health?
- In a short news release, the Institute of Physics reports that smart holograms, which use materials called hydrogels that shrink or swell in response to local environmental conditions, can be used to monitor many physical conditions than three years ago. These smart holograms could soon be used 'by diabetics to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)
- Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricityFeeling skepticalI think prior art is going to bite them on their behinds.Science 101, conservation of energy"M2E's technology, born in the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab, works according to the principle of electromagnetic induction aka The Faraday Principle. The...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity
- M2E Power (M2E meaning Motion to Energy) has snagged $8 million in Series A venture capital funding to turn its patent-pending ideas—which convert simple motion into electricity—into products such as batteries and generators. The investor lead on the round is OVP Venture Partners, with additional funds...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance
- Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles. The researchers also said that...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- iSense? Got'em? SASPO? IEED?
- iSense? Got'em? SASPO? IEED?Proof-of-Concept vs Prototype vs ProductionIn the scenario Murph describes, all the researchers are really being asked to do is prove that the science behind what they are trying to do is sound, and that the engineering problem is solvable.At this point the researchers should be working at...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- A very robust 50-atom-thick nanosheet
- A team of U.S. scientists has discovered that by tightly packing molecules, they could obtain nanothin sheets of materials showing surprising strength. As one enthusiast researcher says, "It's an amazing little marvel." The team adds that "even when suspended over a tiny hole and poked with an ultrafine tip, the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Lenses that bring everything into focus
- Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a new lens device that will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints. The superlens looks like a plate and "is etched with a specific pattern. As the waves pass through the patterned lens, it is sculpted into different sizes and shapes. The...
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
- The secrets of mother-of-pearl strength
- Do you know that the nacre layer, or mother-of-pearl, which is found in pearls and abalone shells is 3,000 times more fracture-resistant than aragonite, the mineral of which it is composed? According to researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison, this remarkable strength "is due to well-defined nanolayers of organics at the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Apple not the only PC vendor making bogus display claims
- Apple not the only PC vendor making bogus display claimsSock it to Apple and other companies accordingly.The company long since has become a joke and misadvertising should be a sin.It's obvious to see which screens are 6-bit and which are 8-bit. As you mentioned - dithering and color banding...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Stargates and time travel
- Stargates and time travelAnother angle.Let's say for a moment that the wormhole thing isn't workable and that the speed of light really is a drop dead barrier to travel. So advanced civilizations could communicate but not visit. Now, let's further assume that they do in fact use electro-magnetic...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Spellings hawks NCLB, emphasizes edtech
- Spellings hawks NCLB, emphasizes edtechSpending moneyReading the Phoenix article and further quotes attributed to Spellings, it would appear that she is engaging in a type of fallacy of composition. She uses the lack of student take up of SMART funding to advocate that all increases in funding are questionable....
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- Study: Genetic info swapped between different species
- Study: Genetic info swapped between different speciesGenetic info swapThis article fails to explain how the "genetic swap info" would get into the germ line. A genetic swap into any other cells would be a genetic dead end.. it may confer a temporary advantage or disadvantage but it would die out...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
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