I guess many people watched movie “Avatar”. We all know that it is illusion and fantasy. Creating those realistic looking illusions is the job of the film’s cast and crew. To make color look the same throughout a film, scenes look real, and reproducing highlights and shadows fifteen scientists and engineers worked on it and they [...]
Entries from February 18th, 2010
Oscar Worthy Science And Engineering.
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Other Science, Physics
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Mango Effective in preventing, stopping certain colon, Breast cancer cells, Food scientists Find
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
Mango is good for our health Scientists examined the five varieties : Kent, Francine, Arnulfo, Tommy / Atkins and Haden. It has about four to five times less antioxidant capacity than an average wine grape and it still holds up fairly well in anticancer activity. If you look at it from the physiological and nutritional [...]
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Parasitic Wasps Reveal New Avenues for Pest Control
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
Most people don’t even know about parasitic wasps, but they actually kill many pest insects. They can be very small, so people don’t even just how important parasitic wasps are. There are over 600,000 species of these wasps and they keep the number of pests down. These wasps find and kill only a specific kinds [...]
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Spider Web Strength Explored
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Biology, Physics
The structure, function and beauty of spider webs have captivated humans for years. They are made out of thin fibers, yet withstand wind. They are lightweight, but capture prey. Orb webs are made out of thicker threads of spider silk called radial threads, which have the greatest amount of stress, and thinner ones called spiral [...]
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High Energy Physics
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Physics
A particle accelerator is used to add energy to particles. We currently need to develop better particle accelerators to develop new laws of physics. In order to do this the accelerators must reach large sizes or put more energy in each particle per meter of acceleration. If we further develop particle accelerator we may be [...]
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Lizard Changes Its Diet to Avoid Predators
February 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Biology
A scientist from Yale University has found out that some lizards change their diet. They do this in order to stay away from their main predators. They have proven that when the lizards feel pressured by predators they become less selective when choosing their food. In order to find this information out many different scientist [...]
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A New Kind Of Lightning
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Other Science, Physics
Stephen McNutt was studying seismic data from a 1992 volcanic eruption, and noticed strange spikes in the data. He figured out it was picking up lightning strikes, so now he had to get help from physicists studying lightning. They set up special devices that picked up lighting data around a volcano that was acting up [...]
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The Fantastic Armor of a Wonderful Snail
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
Two-and-one-half miles underneath the central Indian Ocean, a gastropod mollusk or snail was first discovered in 1999. This “scaly-foot gastropod,” has an amazingly strong shell. The shell consists of three layers. The inner layer, organic middle layer, and the outer layer. Each layer is very strong and is thought to have insights for future mechanical design [...]
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Bacteria and Explosives Made Known
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Physics
Lasers have become very important in the technology of our generation. In this case, scientists are using lasers to detect different types of chemicals and bacteria. This device called the SWOrRD can also be used to detect explosives in a battlefield. The laser wavelengths reverberate with the chemical bonds, and the scattered wavelengths produce information [...]
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Cone Snails and Spiders Help Neurobiologists Investigate Ion Channels
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
Cone Snails and Spiders have a certain neurotoxin that they use to paralyze their prey. Scientists say that there are more than 100,000 neurotoxins in this world. Using these toxins scientists can target a certain ion channel. In the article it says that scientists can even learn more about disease with this research. If you [...]
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