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... a flashing bolt, lightning begins as a complex process of electrostatic charges churning around in storm clouds. These charges initiate ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2015 - 5:51pm - 0 attachments

... that specific mutations within the EGFR gene increase electrostatic interactions between the two dimer subunits of EGFR, stabilizing ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2015 - 10:21am - 0 attachments

... in fact quite similar to how an electric motor works. Electrostatic engines use an electric field generated by applying a high ... ion engine , which is what powers Dawn. Another electrostatic design is the Hall effect thruster , which operates in a ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 6 2015 - 9:30pm - 0 attachments

Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave, but researchers haven't been able to capture both natures of light at the same time; the closest we have come is seeing either wave or particle at different times. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 9:52am - 0 attachments

I have decided to rescind this proposal.  The swap of time t for space R and visa versa really didn't change anything: a scalar operator was still needed and the single value of time needed three subscripts, not making it look at all like tim ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 3 2015 - 12:41pm - 0 attachments

... play a big role in helping it accelerate reactions. The electrostatic field within an enzyme accounts for the lion's share of its ... one idea that's emerged, mostly from simulations, is that electrostatic interactions within the enzyme might play an important role ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 25 2014 - 10:08pm - 0 attachments

... idea, Nikola Tesla worked on powering wireless lamps using electrostatic induction, but the new technique can potentially direct ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 6:30am - 0 attachments

... charge the soil. The charging may create sparking, or electrostatic breakdown, and this "breakdown weathering" process has possibly ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2014 - 6:32pm - 0 attachments

In the process of revising a chapter of my book, I found a clip I would like to share here, as it contains an analogy I cooked up and which I find nice enough to be proud of. Well, two analogies, as you'll soon find out; here I am speaking of the cat we ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2014 - 8:39am - 0 attachments

Star Wars Day is May 4th so you are probably wondering how you would build deflector shields in case the US government is worried about turtles on its former nuclear testing grounds and thinks your cows will harm the ecosystem and sends a Death Star after ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 3:01am - 0 attachments