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Entries from October 14th, 2009

Bladeless Fans

October 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Physics

James Dyson, inventor of new and unique vacuum cleaners, has invented a fan that doesn’t make use of blades. Normal fans use blades to move air around, but this new fan uses a different principle. It pulls air into the base using a motor and forces it out of a slit in the ring of [...]

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Cow Dung and Car Research: What Do They Have In Common

October 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Physics

“Research at the University of Warwick have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood,  human urine, and even cow dung samples from local cow pats. The results could lead to a new high tech medical tool that could provide a fast [...]

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A Graphene Machine?

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics

“Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively new material, and challenges scientists to find out just how perfect graphene can be.” This new finding will help us build prospectively speaking better technologies, such as [...]

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Bacteria Helps Form Gold

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics

 Scientists have wondered what bacteria does to precious metals. The bacteria detoxifies gold complexes and leads to formations of gold biominerals. The process of working with the bacteria may lead to the growth of gold nuggets. For more information, click here. This is a good discovery so that scientists will hopefully create gold-specific biosensors. This [...]

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