Applied Physics

Navier-Stokes Equations And Courage: Seeing The Physics Of NASCAR

Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars. The algorithm, first presented at a computer graphic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Bioengineering To Prevent Iron Deficiency

Using selective plant breeding and genetic engineering could be used to reduce the incidence of iron deficiency worldwide by improving the quality of dietary iron, conclude authors of a Seminar in this week’s edition of The Lancet. Dr Michael Zimmerman, La ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 8:57pm

Improving The Efficiency Of Ethanol

James Spivey, professor of chemical engineering at LSU, and Challa Kumar, group leader of nanofabrication at LSU’s Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, are working with Clemson University and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to boost the efficie ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 1:17pm

Does Renewable Energy Make Sense?

Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning? Researchers in Greece have carried out a life cycl ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 3:58pm

Beyond Batteries: Storing Power In A Sheet Of Paper

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meetin ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 5:41pm

Clones Serve Greater Good, Evolutionary Study Shows

If you’re among the creatures that produce scads of genetically identical offspring – like microbes, plants or water fleas- you have a good evolutionary strategy, a new study says. These creatures provide a chance to wonder about the clones raised in near- ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 5:50pm

Curing Our "Global Fever": An Interview With William H. Calvin

In this fourth installment of our on-going series of interviews with some of the leading thinkers and scientists on the subject of energy, we interview William H. Calvin, PhD. Facing and solving the multiple issues concerning energy is the single most pre ...

Article - David Houle - Aug 14 2007 - 3:28pm

New Model Dashes Hopes Of Life On Enceladus

Life on Saturn's icy moon? Unlikely, say University of Illinois researchers, and a new model they have created shows it is possible for a frigid, stiff Enceladus without a shifting interior (such as plate tectonics on Earth) to develop fractures and r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2007 - 4:27pm

Using Lungs As A Model For Environmentally Friendly Power Plants

Physiologists estimate that humans have 300 million alveoli in their lungs to get rid of just one kilogram of carbon dioxide per day. At rest, they barely exchange ten liters of breathing air each minute. Macrophages are constantly lurking for dust particl ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2007 - 8:25pm

New Test Reveals Alcoholism

It will soon be easy to determine whether a person has an alcohol problem. With a tiny prick of the finger a new method can detect any abuse from the last two weeks. It can also reveal injurious and risky consumption, such as repeated weekend binges. The m ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2007 - 8:29pm