Physicists at Penn State are getting new knowledge in how the human brain works. This new knowledge helps them to understand vocal behavior, human speech production, and speech disorders. They have obtained this knowledge through studies done on songbirds. Scientists are looking at how songbirds transmit impulses through their nerve cells in the brain. This [...]
Entries from March 25th, 2010
Improving Predictions of Climate Change and its Impacts
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
A few days ago scientists told the public that they will be doing a experiments to try and find out the prediction of climate change and its impact. They call this the EaSM. This is very exciting news because this will benefit people today and people in the future. These experiments require all different kinds [...]
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Magnetic monopole experiment at CERN could rewrite laws of physics
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Chemistry, Physics
A physics professor at The University of Arizona and some international teams of physicists are leading an experiment that will use ultra high energy proton collisions. They are searching for a particle called the Magnetic Monopole. This magnetic monopole will only have one pole ( hence the name “mono”pole) unlike normal magnets that have two poles: [...]
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Safer Nuclear Reactions
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Physics
Los Alamos researchers were surprised to find a self repairing Nanocrystalline. One of the major problems with nuclear reactors is how their radiation affects materials. There is often difficulty in finding usable materials to use as the walls. Nanocrystalline, however, is able to repair the holes and effects the radiation gives. It does this through [...]
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Not ‘Dumbed Down’ by Domestication
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology
Domesticated animals all have a smaller brain. This recent study on guinea pigs, it shows and proves that not all domesticated animals are less smart than wild undomesticated animals. The results actually showed that the domesticated guinea pigs were actually smarter than the undomesticated animals, but they were slightly less athletic at swimming in the [...]
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Volcanic Quakes Help Forecast Eruptions.
March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Other Science, Physics
It has been discovered that monitoring quakes from moving magma in active volcanoes can help to accurately forecast an eruption. The magma inside of a volcano is the main thing that indicates when an eruption will happen. It was discovered that the time between the beginning of the pre-eruption of a volcano and the actual [...]
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Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Biology, Physics
Scientists have discovered how certain spiders and fish create their iridescent skin and scales. It has been shown that biological materials are made and put together in the skin of animals. The arrangement in the pattern of the skin if very different but yet they result in the same effectiveness. This shows how much of [...]
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Researchers Create ‘Handshaking’ Particles
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Chemistry, Physics
Physicists at NYU have created particles called handshaking particles. This means that these particles link together based on their certain shapes rather than randomly. This is something that could be able to improve the creation of synthetic materials. This process is done by manipulating colloids. Colloids are particles suspended within a fluid. What the researchers [...]
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Lasers Help Create Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Chemistry, Physics
Fraunhofer researchers from Paris have discovered a way of creating fiber-reinforced thermoplastics that doesn’t involve glass or carbon fiber matting, siphoning air, and huge ovens. Instead they have come up with a way of using lasers. They take kilometer long strips of thermoplastic resin and melt them with the lasers. They are stacked on top [...]
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Particles shape the future!
March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Physics
Scientists in New York have recently discovered a way to make particles link together with other particles of similar shape. Normally however particles have only been know to link together randomly. This is a valuable discovery that will help us discover more about how particles react with one another. This can help us improve our [...]
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