Applied Physics

Bionic Future Wars: Armor That Mimics Snake Skin

Snake Pliskin, the anti-hero of "Escape From New York", didn't get that name because of his armor, but one day there could be a lot of snake-like soldiers running around. Soldiers, and certainly civilians that can be be helped in the medical ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2012 - 2:06pm

The Carbonator Bottle- Make Beer On The Go

Since it's the weekend and you are reading this, you are intellectually curious about science, which means there is also a statistical likelihood you enjoy beer. Because of the natural confluence of interests that cause science and beer to go hand-in- ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:29pm

The X-Ray laser: Once a weapon, now a tool

The X-Ray laser was a main weapon envisioned for the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).  The descendants of that technology are used to image nano-scale structures the size of individual proteins.  This is a prime example of ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 17 2012 - 11:39am

Weekend Science: Will Your Beer Survive A Nuclear Blast?

The Apocalypse is coming. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:25pm

Understand Turbulence And You Understand The Weather

Now that we had a hot summer, local weather effects are once again proof of global warming. The American mid-west had resisted BBC articles and journal press releases about how global global warming was and stayed about the same before finally doing its pa ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 6:30am

Small Is Ugly

The small is weird. No – I do not mean supposed "quantum weirdness", which is not * about small stuff. The non-quantum behavior of the small is counterintuitive enough. Many misconceptions could be avoided with some awareness about how the surfa ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 26 2014 - 3:12am

Plasma: How Some Disorder Improves Your Television Picture

Can researchers improve the quality of matter akin to that found in plasma screens? A new study improves the understanding of plasma sources, where a certain portion of the particles are ionized.  Under certain circumstances, plasma tends to form structure ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2012 - 8:30pm

'Mechanically Active' DNA- Bring On The Self-Propelled Goo

A dynamic gel made of DNA mechanically responds to stimuli in much the same way that cells do.  This DNA gel, at only 10 microns in width, is roughly the size of a eukaryotic cell, the type of cell of which humans are made. The miniscule gel contains withi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2012 - 9:33am

The LED Turns 50: An Interview With Inventor Nick Holonyak

One morning last March, engineers at General Electric’s Nela Park research lab in Cleveland, Ohio, opened a century-old time capsule hidden in a corner stone of Building 307. Inside the cavity and beneath a layer of sand was a standard 40-watt Mazda incan ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2012 - 4:30pm

Has A Fish ‘Broken’ A Law Of Physics?

How a fish ‘broke’ a law of physics... says a press release from Bristol University. ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Nov 5 2012 - 11:43am