clhs sciblog

“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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     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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Wasps may seem like a tiny little creature and you may think nothing much about them. They are puny little animals with a brain the size of two grains of sand. Though you shouldn’t underestimate the brain power of the wasps. Scientists have been studying the brain of the wasp and have discovered they have [...]

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Apparently there is physics involved in a bump in a rug. The scientists have used their studies of bumps in a rug to apply it to other more important things. It can be used to explain how certain defects in a crystal move, the way tectonic plates move,  how cell membranes slide, and how inchworms [...]

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Physicists have determined that eventually computers are not going to be able to be made any faster. Computer speed has been steadily increasing, but, can only reach a certain speed. That speed will be reached before the end of 75 years. To read the full article click here. This is an important discovery to know. [...]

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“As the University of Leicester approaches the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (September 10), Leicester geneticists interested in a particular type of DNA are receiving some help from an unusual band of assistants.” Dr. Richard badge is study the DNA of chimps at a zoo trying to see if evolution could exist. [...]

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  Well as we don’t know yet we have been harming our turtles and their babies. We have been threatening them because we try to put signs and nets but no one listens. Even when they say they  are about to be ext inced we just don’t seem to get the message through our  heads. Poachers have [...]

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