Applied Physics

Optimizing Sports Equipment Could Make Everyone A Pro

Computer models now under development could enhance the design of sports equipment to help people of all abilities realise their sporting potential. The models, more sophisticated and more specialised than others previously used in sports equipment design, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2007 - 11:56am

Body Sensor Could Help Produce Next-Gen Super Athletes

A revolutionary new sensor collects and immediately transmits data about posture, stride length, step frequency, acceleration, response to shock waves travelling through the body etc. It's cufflink-sized and clipped behind the wearer’s ear, so it does ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2007 - 11:57am

Bone-Growing Nanomaterial Could Improve Artificial Hips

For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new material that could significantly increase ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2007 - 12:44am

How Proteins Fold Into 3-D Shapes

A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL's Cray XT ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2007 - 12:51am

Phosgene: The Least Discussed Man-Made Poison Gas In Our Atmosphere

Phosgene is most famous for being part of the chemical arsenal used in the trenches during World War I- generals preferred it over chlorine because soldiers coughed less and therefore inhaled more. It was still stockpiled in military arsenals after the Sec ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2007 - 11:20am

Solved: The Mystery Of The Bicycle

Everyone knows how a bicycle works- or so we think. But for 150 years why a moving bicycle can, all by itself, be so stable has been something of a mystery. "Bicycle manufacturers have never been able to say precisely how a bicycle works," explai ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2007 - 12:56am

ZAP Signs Electric Car Joint Venture With China's Largest Luxury Bus Manufacturer

JINHUA CITY, China and SANTA ROSA, California, September 21 /PRNewswire/--- Youngman Auto Group to Make Electric and Hybrid Cars, Trucks and Buses for Joint Venture In a joint statement released today, USA electric car pioneer ZAP (OTC Bulletin Board: ZAA ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 22 2007 - 11:21pm

InMage Systems Brings CDP-Based Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity Software To Europe

SANTA CLARA, California, September 21 /PRNewswire/-- InMage Systems, Inc.(R), the leading provider of business continuity and disaster recovery software for small, medium and large enterprises, announced they have opened a new office near London, England. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 21 2007 - 11:22am

Falcon Oil & Gas Announces Appointment Of Directors

BUDAPEST, Hungary, September 21 /PRNewswire/-- Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSXV Symbol: FO) ("Falcon") announced today that Igor Akhmerov, David E. Fisher, Daryl H. Gilbert, Jan Van Holsbeeck and Prof. Ferenc Horvath have been elected to Falcon&# ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 21 2007 - 1:05pm

The God Particle: Is Science The New Religion? The Surrey Debate 2007

In case you happen to be in town: Professor Jim Al-Khalili of the University of Surrey will host the third public Surrey Debate ‘The God Particle: Is science the new religion?’ on Wednesday, October 17 from 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2007 - 1:53pm