Applied Physics

Sawing Off The Wings: What’s That Sound Beneath The Plane?

As I was sitting patiently in Long Beach waiting to exit the plane and listening to that weird sawing sound that I hear every time I fly on an Airbus A320, I was wondering two things: 1) Why does it sound like Paul Bunyon is attacking my plane with a drywa ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Apr 17 2015 - 2:10am

General Dynamics To Acquire Jet Aviation For US$2.25 Billion

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, August 19 /PRNewswire/--- Transaction will create a large, worldwide business-jet support network and expand General Dynamics' Aerospace operations into global flight-support services; current Jet Aviation management to remain ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 19 2008 - 4:33am

LHC Start-up

After the Olympics, the next big thing is the international Large Hadron Collider. There's a lot of excitement at CERN. The first injections, and without a hitch, of low energy protons shot through an eighth of the 27 km LHC ring. Back to back for th ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:38pm

DataPlay Acquires DaTARIUS Technology And Resumes Operations

LONGMONT, Colorado, and REUTTE, Austria, August 20 /PRNewswire/-- The U.S. based DPHI, Inc. dba DataPlay has received the approval to purchase the assets and intellectual property of DaTARIUS worldwide and resume operations immediately. DataPlay will be f ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 19 2008 - 8:32pm

Liquefaction- When Earthquakes Happen Near Rivers, Solids Become Liquids

As Dr. Ronaldo Luna, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, watches a machine shake silt from the Mississippi River until it liquefies, he says, "This is what would h ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:20pm

Microsoft And Novell Expand Successful Interoperability Relationship

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, August 20 /PRNewswire/--- Additional resources, training and investments to address growing customer demand. Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc are announcing an incremental investment in their relationship to meet accelerating customer ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 19 2008 - 11:30pm

Agile Methodology Takes Hold In Europe Test Cases

Use of embedded software in electronics devices is growing even faster than advances in electronics themselves. Yet human capabilities for producing software have not increased in Europe over the past decade. “The amount of software is growing very rapidly ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2008 - 9:19am

Fine-Tuning Flavors May Also Lead To Environmentally Terrific Pesticides

University of Texas Medical School Assistant Professor C.S. Raman and colleagues say they have been able to manipulate flavor enzymes found in a popular plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, by genetic means. The enzymes—allene oxide synthase (AOS) and hydrop ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2008 - 5:57pm

Multipurpose Goodness: Biodiesel Waste Converted Into Omega-3 Fatty Acids

There are two big problems we face; energy and health. Zhiyou Wen, assistant professor of biological systems engineering in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has found a way to tackle both using biodiesel. The typical American ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2008 - 1:29pm

Sign Language On A Mobile Phone

A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this spring, and recently received a Na ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2008 - 6:35pm