Energy Harvesting is essentially converting one type of energy, like the motion of wind, to another type of energy, like electricity. For example: in a “wind farm” wind blowing through the area causing giant propellers to turn. Because the propellers are turning it creates energy which can be converted to energy. Some propellers are also [...]
Entries from October 28th, 2009
Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Physics
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Light From Black Holes
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
As far as most people know, black holes are the darkest things out there. Their gravity is so intense that not even light can escape their grasp. Black holes aren’t studied with telescopes, but with computers, because you really can’t see them. Black holes might not be as dark as we thought though. Gases being [...]
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Pumpkin Skin May Scare Away Germs
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
Recently scientists have made and extraordinary discovery which is that pumpkin skin in fact scares away infectious diseases in yeast. Scientists took a closer look at the pumpkin skins to observe that Candida albicans (C. albicans) fungus causes vaginal yeast infections, diaper rash in infants, is not toxic to the pumpkin skins this could lead [...]
Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
These wasp have a brain about the size of two grains of sand. so there must be alot of power packed into such a small brain. When these wasp are young, there job is inside the hive. Then they get aliitle older and they move farther out of the hive and eventualy outside the hive [...]
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Rot-resistant Wheat Could Save Farmers Millions
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
This article is about a fungus called Crown Rot, whicheats through wheat and barley. This fungus normally eats through about $79 million a year. Because of this scientists and farmers are trying to develop a rot resistant crop. Not only will it stop crop loss, but it will lessen some sicknesses that this rot produces. [...]
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A Fifth State of Matter?
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
“Physicists at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have made a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter.” At very low temperatures, helium gas turns into a liquid. Put under extreme pressure the liquid turns into a solid. Physicists have been manipulating solid helium so [...]
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FASTER COMPUTERS?
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
team of French physicists say they have used a femtosecond laser (ultra-fast bursts of laser light) to alter electron spin and this would speed up retrieval and storage. The technique could increase the speed up to 100000 times. imagine the possibility to be able to surf the net even faster computer work and computer operated [...]
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Last Chance To Save Rare Asian Animal From Extinction?
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
In 1992 there was a discovery to world science. It is a rare animal know as the Saola in Annamite Mountains. The Saola is already an endangered creature and it appears that these creature’s race is declining. It is declining so fast that it is almost at the point of becoming extinct. The primary reason [...]
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Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round
October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Physics
Two gamma-ray photon which were racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years get to NASA’s otbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat stoke the fires of debat ober Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The reason is one of the photons possessed a million times more energy [...]
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The lotus’s clever way of staying dry
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Confucius said:” I love the lotus because while growing from mud, it is unstained.” The student from University of Duck found why lotus can stay dry. There are some tiny irregular blumps on the surface of the lotus’s leaf. If the water droplet on the top of the leaf, It only touches the end of the [...]
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