Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News
March 1962 [More]
Read More » Home / Author Archives: (page 48)
Ponytail Physics: How Competing Forces Shape Bundles of Hair
Ponytails in motion. Credit: Mike Adams/Flickr via Creative Commons BOSTON At long last, one of the hairiest problems in modern physics has been solved. Researchers have devised a theoretical model to describe the shape of a ponytail.
Read More »Live Blogging: Dangerous Tornado Outbreak in U.S. Midwest and South
Storms are pushing into the southern Appalachians, bringing the potential for
Read More »Best Mars Sky Show of 2012 Occurs Saturday: How to Watch Online
UPDATE: See our latest skywatching tips to see Mars at opposition here: Mars Visible in Night Sky, But Its 2 Moons Are Hard to Spot [More]
Read More »Mars Swings Into Opposition March 3
Now's a great time to break out that backyard telescope. Because Saturday, March 3, is the Mars Opposition . It's one of the times that the Earth and Mars pass the closest to one another
Read More »Twisted Radio Waves Could Expand Bandwidth for Mobile Phones
By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The research on which this story is based has now been published in the New Journal of Physics . [More]
Read More »Heart-powered pacemaker could one day eliminate battery-replacement surgery
A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves.
Read More »Japan’s Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects
After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines.
Read More »Nine Flying Robots Play 007 Theme
Check out this video, where nine palm-sized
Read More »The Risks and Benefits of Mutant Flu Studies
By Ed Yong of Nature magazine Two teams of scientists, led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have created mutant strains of H5N1 avian influenza. [More]
Read More »Tar Sand Companies Aim to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The world's largest oil sands producers signed an agreement yesterday to waive their intellectual property and patent rights in order to reduce the industry's impact on greenhouse gases, agriculture and waterways. [More]
Read More »Earth Formed from Diverse Meteorite Mix
Earth's building blocks were more eclectic than once thought, according to a new study suggesting our planet formed from collisions of many different types of meteorites.
Read More »Navy Welcomes 2 Ships into Research Fleet
By Mark Shrope of Nature magazine U.S. [More]
Read More »UK scientists develop optimum piezoelectric energy harvesters
Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have developed a new model to deliver the maximum power output for piezoelectric energy harvesters.
Read More »New measurements of W boson mass point to Higgs mass and test Standard Model
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The new measurement is an important, independent constraint of the mass of the theorized Higgs boson
Read More »