clhs sciblog

Thanks for all the great posts this year.  I’ve learned loads about current events in science…and I hope you have too! I won’t be grading any posts for the 2010-2011 school year after this post. Feel free to post if you feel the need, however!

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Professor Yuntian Zhu,  a matierals scientist at North Carolina State University,  was included in a project of a stronger, yet lighter steel. They created nanostructures, which can be used on many different metals, to help create the Nano-Architectured Aluminum. Professor Zhu had explained how the aluminum alloys, that when combined to form hierarchical structure to many high levels [...]

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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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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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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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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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“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 [...]

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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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                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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