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That's one way of interpreting new research investigating how unusual gravity changes the physics of deep-frying.
liquids and peelings, the basic physics of cooking is different. For example, in zero gravity there's no convection in hot fluids to redistribute the heat,
This device could generate the equivalent of a gravitational force of up to 9g oe nine times that at the Earth's surface.
Physicist KD Jayasuriya and his team found that the boiling technique produced a similar efficiency increase for plantains oe
and disinfecting it with ultraviolet light. It has the potential to support 500,000 people. Additionally, it recharges a vast groundwater basin that supplies water to 20 cities and water agencies
Arizona, the Palo verde Nuclear power Plant is the world's only atomic power station not located adjacent to water.
birds see magnetic fields as patterns of spots. For more articles worth reading, visit The Browser.
Technical crafts made possible by new research in thermodynamics are now presenting remarkable new opportunities for architectural designers to work with air gas and fluids as building materials.
Radioactive feral pigs are threatening Europe. Destroying crops, spreading diseases.""Once a wild pig is full-grown,
genes or the quantum states of atoms oe is linked closely to the field of thermodynamics, which was devised originally to understand how heat flows in engines and other machinery.
including radioactive elements like polonium-210. When the harvested leaves are cured and dried, compounds within them are converted into tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAS), a class of well-known and intensely studied carcinogens.
Alpha centauri and the new astronomy Lee Billings Centauri Dreams 16 october 2012 The discovery of a new planet outside our solar system is a fascinating development,
opening the way to a New Astronomy that focuses not on the edge of space and the beginning of time,
That apple by his deathbed has become the most famous in science since Isaac newton's windfall,
who has worked on many volunteer computing projects at the at the European Particle physics Laboratory, Cern oe and who mentored, among others a young Tim Berners-Lee,
as long as they obey the rules of physics. The closer your attempts at protein origami adhere to those rules,
They do it by bringing electronic tools into their crop rows-global positioning systems, infrared devices that measure soil's electrical conductivity and light and sound sensors.
Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. Some of our changes are geologically profound oe deforestation and the elimination and distribution of species,
Wifi Makes Trees Sick City trees are becoming sick from wireless radiation from local area networks and mobile phones.
Radiation from Wi-fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in The netherlands.
Radiation from Wi-fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in The netherlands.
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months.
The study also found that Wi-fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs. The researchers urged that further studies were needed to confirm the current results
and determine long-term effects of wireless radiation on trees. Via PC WORLD Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati a
where they deflect solar radiation. Resulting cooling on earths surface can last for months or years. Not all eruptions will do it;
if atmospheric dynamics and volcanic eruptions come together with the right timing, they could reinforce one another, with drastic results. oethen you get flooding or drought,
learning subjects like French, mathematics, biology and physics. Jean-Marc Guillou, 64, the white man who came to Bamako to recruit young football talents,
They have established that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor in the phenomenon and say that it probably interfering with the bees navigation senses.
We have compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. oea significant decline in colony strength
Sir Isaac newton was undoubtedly a genius with many discoveries and inventions to his name. Where do you think the cat flap ranks on his list of accomplishments?
Rumor has it that Newton invented the cat flap when his beloved pet kept nudging the door to his lab open
However, take this story with a grain of salt at least two Newton biographers have done extensive research on the mans life that turned up no trace of a pet of any kind.
just as nuclear physics was in the pre-Chernobyl days, when we were led to believe that nuclear power plants were completely safe.
Politically Charged Science No other branch of science is charged as politically. A religious war is raging between alarmists and skeptics,
savannah and shrub fires emits large amounts of organic carbon particles that block solar radiation. The new analysis offers policy makers and the public a far more detailed and comprehensive understanding of how to mitigate climate change most effectively,
or soot, actually absorbs incoming solar radiation, heats the atmosphere, and drives the evaporation of low-level clouds.
Charlotte Williams, of the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council who is helping to develop the new material,
what a physicist would do, Dodds says, laughing. Basic geometry shows that the surface area of this difficult-to-milk creature would increase as the square of its radius
#Magnetic resonance used to artificially taste and improve canned tomatoes Improving the taste of tomatoes in an unlikely way.
and improve the flavor of tinned tomatoes during the canning process#Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy,
#Fukushima grows sunflowers to clean up radiation contamination A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima.
Burning strips of paper swirled into the hot summer sky as they carry the names of the dead above a temple in Fukushima where thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the omnipresent radiation.
#Some 80,000 people were forced to evacuate from a vast swathe of land around the reactor as engineers battled radiation leaks,
Worse still, radiation spread well outside the mandatory evacuation zone, nestling in hot spots#and contaminating the ground in what remains a largely agricultural region.
Others face stringent tests and potentially harmful shipping bans after radioactive cesium was found in rice straw.
Excessive radiation levels have also been found in beef vegetables, milk, seafood and water and, in hot spots more than 100 km from the plant, tea.
In an effort to lift the spirits of area residents as well as lighten the impact of the radiation,
which are believed all to absorb radiation, #said the monk. So far we have grown at least 200,000 flowers (at this temple) and distributed many more seeds.
Sunflowers were used near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident there to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby.
Japanese scientists are also carrying out tests to prove their usefulness in fighting radiation. HOPE FROM STAGNATION But Abe decided not to wait for the results of the tests
me forget about radiation too, #said Tomoe, a 38-year-old volunteer who declined to give her last name.
hoping they would suck up radiation, #said Mura Akiba, a local villager weeding her garden. A dosimeter placed next to her registered radiation levels of more than 5 microsieverts per hour, far exceeding government safety levels.
Her house is located near a radioactive hot spot. Im so ashamed to go to a shop to buy fruit and vegetables
#I have done never this before in my life, #she added. But now I just stare at my blueberries
they confided to Abe their worries about radioactive contamination of the soil in their gardens.
They are bombarded then with intense sound waves from the same device that dentists and jewelers use.
and radiation to treat a rare form of leukemia that, several times in the preceding few years, had taken almost her life.
Dr. Ma then sent it to Dr. Anthony Kampf, Curator of Mineral Sciences at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County (NHM), for X-ray diffraction study.
and organizational dynamics, each event will involve a communication structure that ties directly into the groups core user community.
including a map of radiation levels in Japan for The Guardian. They are developing a Data science Toolkit for dealing with location data.
Keith Ayoob, director of the nutrition clinic at the Rose F. Kennedy Childrens Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
#Sterishoe â#Ultraviolet light Gadget That Will End Smelly Feet Forever Sterishoe If the stench from your footwear regularly kicks up a stink with your other half,
It works by using ultraviolet light to sterilise the bacteria which cause the offensive odors in footwear.
The Sterishoe shoe sanitiser is clinically proven to destroy microorganisms in shoes using ultraviolet light. It is recommended by doctors as a chemical-free method to kill bacteria in shoes, reducing shoe odor and risk of infection from athletes foot.
However, the Sterishoe is the first device to use ultraviolet light #which is used commonly as a modern disinfectant in hospitals, dental surgeries, public swimming pools and other water treatment systems#to neutralise the bacteria.
or zinc oxide to reflect UV radiation away from the body while organic ingredients such as octyl methoxycinnamate or oxybenzone convert the remaining UV rays into heat.
The end results are creams with varying SPFS (Sun Protection Factors) that keep the body protected from UV radiation.
Source: everydaymysteries 9.)Songs Stuck in our Heads Almost everyone has at one point or another had stuck a song in their head,
and using wasted kinetic energy from people walking, riding bikes, from running water etc. There is early traction there.
Baking acts by convection, rather than by thermal radiation, and is undertaken typically in ovens, in hot ashes,
which radiation is used to heat the polarized molecules in food. The microwave is notable mostly as a gateway technology, leading to the culinary innovation of the late 20th century:
and it s awesome. 1. Electric Clothes Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet.
-and-go shock wave down the highway. One driving-simulator study found that nearly half the time one vehicle passed another,
And their entire understanding of space and physics. We are now officially within a local energy cloud detected a few years ago by the Voyager satellites.
IBEX team, M. Paternostro (The Adler Planetarium), Dr. P. Frisch (University of Chicago), Dr. S. Redfield (Wesleyan University) First The Interstellar Cloud That Physics
The magnetic field of our own sun, inflated by the solar wind into a bubble called the heliosphere, #substantially protects us from these things.
A strong magnetic field just outside the solar system could press against the heliosphere and interact with it in unknown ways.
we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system, #explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University.
This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the longstanding puzzle of how it can exist at all.#
well-organized magnetic field sitting right on our doorstep.##emphasis mine The IBEX data fit in nicely with recent results from Voyager.
suggesting that the magnetic field behind it must be equally vast. Source) What Other Energies Await?
and dust particles reducing noise pollution to the building improving the microclimate saving energy by sheltering the building from solar radiation in summer reducing rainwater run off
including an onboard magnetometer so that it can always tell where the pilot is in relation to its flight path,
Models of colony dynamics suggest that significant loss of foragers could cause rapid population decline and colony collapse,
When discussing cases of bioluminescence, it might be helpful to note that this type of photo-luminescence is fluorescence (think#oeblack light#).
and emitting it over time as with phosphorescence (think#oeglow-in-the-dark shirt#).#This is not exactly new.
(#oemerc#)Mercure, one of the founding employees of Ball aerospace, who was a physics graduate student at the University of Colorado at the time.
Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise.#
#and is done based on research by physicist Marin Soljacic of MIT. It works by exploiting the fact that certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves facilitate ease of energy transfer
and two objects resonating with such a frequency can easily transfer electricity between them, even at some distance and even if the objects are metal.
as of this writing, is searching for an appropriate stretch to build the first tube. 1. Sustainable Fusion reactor Nuclear fission (the process by
which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).
Small nuclear fusion reactors have been built, but a large-scale, sustainable fusion reactor has yet to be attempted#ntil now.
nuclear fusion is cleaner and yields three to four times more power than fission. The project is called ITER, for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor,
It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),
physicist turned financing pioneer turned engineer, self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars
But his father s day job as a high school chemistry and physics teacher laid an unusual theoretical foundation for his son.#
) Microwave radiation won t cause cancer, it just heats food up. In fact only a few types of radiation cause cancer,
and these depend on the dose#just like radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer but just enough helps your body make Vitamin d.
(SOURCE: Cancer Research UK). ) 33. It s a myth that Mcdonald s burgers don t rot. Actually they will rot given the right conditions#water and warmth for the microbes that break the food down.
Catharine M. Cox, author of#oeearly Mental Traits of Three hundred Geniuses#,studied the habits of 300 geniuses#such as Isaac newton, Einstein,
equipped with special infrared cameras, fires can be spotted during the earliest moments of a containment window,
State of the art Infrared Technology In the late 1980s, I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.
the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.
Onboard thermal sensors record infrared measurements capable of showing heat loss in buildings and monitoring pipelines.
Technical crafts made possible by new research in thermodynamics are now presenting remarkable new opportunities for architectural designers to work with air
I paid special attention to the rollout of new technologies, the role of urbanization in altering agro-business dynamics,
A magnetometer in the device worn on the cow s head determines the animal s angle of approach.
What if there is a radiation leak? Do you send rodents into it? You can see the moral and ethical issues that need to be worked out.
As part of the program, local astronomy clubs, who serve as the caretakers for the telescopes,
#Seed Library STEM Programs for Youth include Science Saturdays, astronomy programs, and LEGO Robotics programs for youth.
and analyzing traffic patterns to reroute drivers-Waste management optimizing waste pickup by measuring container levels-Security & emergency detection detecting radiation, gases,
Does the invention of theflashdark violate our current laws of physics? Even so, is it still a viable technology?
Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon.
by using infrared light). Scientifically viable in 2015; mainstream in 2018; and financially viable in 2019.
000 for a military-style device are equipped with infrared cameras, sensors and other technology controlled by a pilot on the ground.
With a series of infrared rangefinders, the robots can sense their surroundings, even reacting to human visitors to their garden by stepping out of your way.
and if supply can meet demand then prices might fall perhaps in time for the 2014 U n. International Year of Crystallography.
Christopher Wanjek is the author of a new novel Hey Einstein! a comical nature-versus-nurture tale about raising clones of Albert Einstein in less than-ideal settings.
His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Livescience e
#25 Fun Facts<p>Ever wonder what color eyes a scallop has or how deep the ocean really is?
Sexologists study everything from puberty to sexual orientation to the mechanics of sexual intercourse. They also study sexual dysfunctions.
The 1990s to today As testing methods continued to improve researchers found that enzyme indicators on home pregnancy test strips could replace radioactive labels.
Richard Muller a physicist at Berkeley and a founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project used to be a skeptic on climate change.
As the particles slam into Earth's magnetic field they bump into atoms and molecules of oxygen nitrogen and other elements.
#Big bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events<p></p><p><em>Roger Briggs is the author of "</
With new discoveries in astrophysics evolutionary biology molecular genetics geology and paleoanthropology a continuous story has emerged starting from the Big bang. This is both a new cosmology that humanity is embedded in and a grand tour of science.
</p><p>George Gamow had predicted that a Big bang should produce just such a background radiation and the CMB became one of the first pieces of evidence supporting the Big bang theory.
Since then the study of the CMB with space-based instruments like COBE WMAP and now the Planck Spacecraft continues to be a rich source of information about the early universe and it s deepest structure.</
</p><p></p><p>After about 400 million years of expansion following the Big bang the universe was cool enough for gravity to begin coalescing clouds of hydrogen into stars igniting nuclear fusion for the first time.
The prodigious outpouring of radiation from the first stars marked the end of the Dark Age
and ionized nearby clouds of hydrogen. This re-ionization is the fingerprint of the first stars
and can be seen in the spectral signatures of quasars in the polarization of the CMB and in the 21-centimeter emission line of hydrogen.</
and contain all 92 naturally occurring elements like our sun. Astronomers now have strong evidence from exoplanet research that virtually all stars form planetary systems as a natural part of their own formation
Astronomers have yet to see a solar system that is neatly ordered like our own with a nice rocky planet located in the sweet spot for liquid water and life.</
bo of the Max Planck Institute and his colleagues reveal that some people of European descent today carry as much as 4 percent Neanderthal DNA leaving no doubt that the two populations interbred somewhere along the way.</
#Broccoli Compound Could Prevent Radiation Sickness A byproduct of a chemical found in broccoli could prevent acute radiation poisoning new research suggests.
and other cruciferous vegetables prevents rats exposed to lethal doses of radiation from dying. If follow-up studies show the treatment works in humans the compound could be given to people before
or right after nuclear exposure to mitigate acute radiation sickness. Insights from the research could also help to lessen the side effects of radiation therapy in cancer patients by making healthy cells
but not cancer cells less susceptible to damage from radiation said study co-author Dr. Eliot Rosen a radiation oncologist at Georgetown University in Washington D c. Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods Deadly effects
When people are exposed to high doses of radiation such as that resulting from a nuclear meltdown
Heavy radiation also strips the gastrointestinal tract making people prone to inflammation and infection. At high enough doses both ailments can be lethal.
whether these same properties might help shield cells from the DNA damage caused by radiation from a nuclear meltdown or a dirty bomb.
To find out the team exposed 40 rats to a dose of gamma-ray radiation that would normally be deadly
After 30 days animals typically will not die of acute radiation sickness; however the researchers didn't study the animals that long
 But in the case of a nuclear disaster you're not really worried about someone who is going to get cancer from the radiation 10 or 20 years down the line;
When it was given prior to radiation exposure the compound also shielded rats from radiation's effects.
More work In a second set of studies the team showed that human breast-cancer cells dosed with DIM were still susceptible to the effects of radiation raising the possibility that DIM could shield patients'healthy cells
while still allowing radiation to kill cancer cells. DIM's preferential effects in healthy tissue could reduce the side effects of radiation therapy.
It's a very interesting and surprising result because of the whole body protection from radiation said Gary Firestone a molecular biologist at the University of California Berkeley who studies DIM
and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Inside Science News Service is supported by the American Institute of Physics P
You become calmer have steadier hand movements Howes said after adjusting an infrared camera he installed in one of his hives
Inside Science News Service is supported by the American Institute of Physics. Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer based in Baltimore.
Building in tornado country Even in Tornado Alley buildings are designed to withstand only 90 mph (145 km h) straight-line winds said Partha Sarkar who studies wind engineering and aerodynamics at Iowa State university.
Incoming solar radiation strikes Earth's atmosphere in the form of visible light plus ultraviolet and infrared radiation
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation has a higher energy level than visible light and infrared (IR) radiation has a weaker energy level.
Some of the sun's incoming radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere the oceans and the surface of the Earth.
Much of it however is reflected back out to space as low-energy IR radiation. For Earth's temperature to remain stable the amount of incoming solar radiation should be roughly equal to the amount of IR radiation leaving the atmosphere.
As Earth's atmosphere changes however the amount of IR radiation leaving the atmosphere also changes.
And since the Industrial revolution the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
Along with other gases like methane and nitrous oxide CO2 acts like a blanket absorbing IR radiation and preventing it from leaving the atmosphere.
The net effect causes the gradual heating of Earth's atmosphere and surface. Related: Effects of Global Warming This is called the greenhouse effect
but weaker IR radiation isn't able to pass out through the glass. The trapped IR radiation keeps the greenhouse warm even in the coldest winter weather.
There are several gases in Earth's atmosphere known as greenhouse gases because they exacerbate the greenhouse effect:
Methane for example is about 21 times more effective at trapping heat from IR radiation than carbon dioxide according to the EPA.
Some of these historical changes can be attributed to changes in the amount of solar radiation hitting the planet.
However there is no evidence that any increase in solar radiation could be responsible for the steady increase in global temperatures that scientists are now recording according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA.
Facts About the Nuclear Disaster In the early morning hours of April 26 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet union) exploded creating
Even after many years of scientific research and government investigation there are still many unanswered questions about the Chernobyl accident especially regarding the long-term health impacts that the massive radiation leak will have on those who were exposed.
and about 12 miles (20 km) south of the border with Belarus the four reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant were designed
and to keep a continuous nuclear reaction occurring in the core. As the nuclear core heated
mechanisms according to the U n. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR. At 1: 23 a m. on April 26 when extremely hot nuclear fuel rods were lowered into cooling water an immense amount of steam was created
which because of the RBMK reactors'design flaws created more reactivity in the nuclear core of reactor number 4. The resultant power surge caused an immense explosion that detached the 1000-ton plate covering the reactor core releasing radiation
and radiation leaks the death toll climbed as plant workers succumbed to acute radiation sickness.
Most of the radiation released from the failed nuclear reactor was from iodine-131 cesium-134 and cesium-137.
By that time many were already complaining about vomiting headaches and other signs of radiation sickness.
Twenty-eight of the workers at Chernobyl died in the four months following the accident according to the U s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) including some heroic workers who knew they were exposing themselves to deadly levels of radiation
in order to secure the facility from further radiation leaks. The prevailing winds at the time of the accident were from the south and east so much of the radiation plume traveled northwest toward Belarus.
Nonetheless Soviet authorities were slow to release information about the severity of the disaster to the outside world.
But when radiation alarms began to go off at a nuclear plant in Sweden authorities were forced to reveal the full extent of the crisis. Within three months of the Chernobyl accident a total of 31 people died from radiation exposure or other direct
More than 6000 cases of thyroid cancer may eventually be linked to radiation exposure in Ukraine Belarus
Surprisingly the overall rate of cancer deaths and other health effects related to Chernobyl's radiation leak is lower than was feared initially.
The majority of the five million residents living in contaminated areas received very small radiation doses comparable to natural background levels (0. 1 rem per year) according to an NRC report.
Today the available evidence does not strongly connect the accident to radiation-induced increases of leukemia or solid cancer other than thyroid cancer.
Some experts have claimed that unsubstantiated fear of radiation poisoning led to greater suffering than the actual disaster.
or other disorders though the actual level of radiation exposure these women experienced were too low to cause any problems.
Shortly after the radiation leaks from Chernobyl occurred the trees in the woodlands surrounding the plant were killed by high levels of radiation.
The damaged reactor was sealed hastily in a concrete sarcophagus intended to contain the remaining radiation:
A few hundred former residents of the area have returned to their former homes despite the risks of radiation exposure.
Only a handful of radiation effects such as stunted trees growing in the zone of highest radiation
Because of the long-lived radiation in the region surrounding the former Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant the area won't be safe for human habitation for at least 20000 years.
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