Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 3:07pm
This cloth, developed by Assistant Professor Di Gao of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, could clean the nearly-ruined Gulf of Mexico cheaply and quickly. But how?
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 1:29pm
I love seeing cool science made real with clever tricks. This pendulum can be started from a standstill, but when out in the sun will start itself swinging back and forth, faster and faster, without being touched.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 7:45am
A mercury arc valve is an old piece of equipment that was used to convert AC electricity to DC. They were used at the start of the 20th century in places like factories, electric railways and streetcars. That's all well...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 7:07am
It feels like just yesterday that we were taking about the Large Hadron Collider smashing the world record for most powerful particle collision circulation ever at an energy level of 3.5 TeV (tera-electron volts). That was actually only a scant...
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- Albert Einstein
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- dark energy
- dark matter
- Edwin Hubble
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- Ludovic Van Waerbeke
- metric expansion of space
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- theory of relativity
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 11:41am
Astronomers have been studying the results of the biggest survey ever conducted by the Hubble space telescope with an international team of scientists, led by Tim Schrabback of the Leiden Observatory and Ludovic Van Waerbeke of the University of British...
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:01am
It sounds like science fiction, but researchers from the University of Missouri have a 3D printer that could one day recreate human organs by using a cocktail made from human cells. If your liver was failing, for instance, cells from...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 1:29pm
Looking out into the depth and width of the universe is a big darn job, but luckily we've got big darn telescopes to do it with. Not only are they big, but a lot of these telescopes are pretty crazy...
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 2:23am
British researchers are working on developing a standard "micro-ear," a technology they think will one day be as commonplace as a microscope in the modern laboratory. At the moment, the micro-ear system works by measuring the vibrations a micro-organism makes...
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 12:58pm
Aluminum and ice combine to make rocket fuel. Who knew? Not me, for one. Fortunately, it's not normal aluminum foil we're talking here, but rather metallic aluminum in non-scale powder form, which isn't found in your local grocery store. Purdue...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 11:36am
Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, working with the Department of Homeland Security, have created a portable chemical sniffer for cellphones, such as the iPhone. It's about the size of a postage stamp and can plug...
