The longest-lasting light bulb is the Centennial light. It is located in Livermore, California. It is still giving off light in the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department. It is 109 years old and has been turned off a small amount of times. Part of the reason why light bulbs burn out is caused by the turning them [...]
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Inside Science of Iron Man 2
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I guess many people saw or watched Iron man 1 and this Friday Iron man 2 is comming out too. The power that able to move the Iron man is a particle accelerator. But Tony Stark came up with a new way of power reactor to make him alive. So, the film producer wanted to [...]
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Thoughts to speech?
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A milestone has recently been reached by a team of scientists. Their goal is to let people who are unable to speak because of accidents or diseases speak in real time. Through an implant that changes neural signals to modified FM radio signals and eventually to synthetic speech, a person can “say” something in fewer [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Radiation in the Sky.
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“The frequent flyer is susceptible to more radiation in particularly high latitudes,” Chris Mertens, Ph.D., a space physicist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., said.
We’re all exposed to some radiation every day, but the earth’s atmosphere shields us from most of it. At higher latitudes, near the poles, and altitudes above 30,000 [...]
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New Technology Helps Parkinson’s Patients Speak Louder
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
One of the affects of Parkinson’s disease is a speech problem. People with Parkinson’s tend to speak very quietly and sometimes unclearly. One attempt to help was speech therapy sessions. However, after the sessions the patients would forget to speak louder. Jessica Huber found a better solution to this problem. Huber told her patients to [...]
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Detecting Water
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Many of us remember the terrorist attack in 2006, and all of us deal with its consequences whenever we board a plane: We aren’t allowed to bring water (or any drinks for that matter) into airports. However, physicists in Germany believe that by using a technique from spectroscopy, which uses electromagnetism to detect different [...]
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Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia Described
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently published the findings of a new unordinary fossil. The discovery is believed to be a type of tyrannosaurs. Apparently archaeologists did not realize how many different kinds of tyrannosaurs there were. A [...]
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Scientists Discover Largest Orb-weaving Spider
October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
A few researchers from the Untied States and Slovenia have found a big Nephila species from Africa and Madagascar. The new species are the biggest orb weaver known. the females of these species are the only one that are giant. they can get to be as big as 1.5 inches long and with a [...]
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