clhs sciblog

Recently, scientists were able to count how many emperor penguins were in Antarctica with a simple satellite photo. If that isn’t great enough, scientists learned that there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than they had previously thought. Scientists have done this before, but now they use a technique called “pansharpening”, which provides [...]

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The skull and jaw has recently been discovered of a sperm whale 10 feet long in size, that lived 12-13 million years ago, of a coastal desert of Peru. The said cousin of the modern day sperm whale is said to be the closest rival in size though being very different. The modern day sperm whale [...]

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People have studied that the shock received by a Taser on the Chest can lead to cardiac arrest and even sudden death, although the frequent sudden death occurs is unknown. This study was based on the records of 8 people who had been shocked by a taser fired at adistance. All eight had gone into cardiac arrest. [...]

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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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