Posted by Michael Bradbury in Food and Nutrition, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 07 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Peanut Promise
Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna, the scientific Mr. Peanut
After years of inventing useful peanut-based foods, Mohomed Ahmedna has announced his latest creation–the allergen-free peanut.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Podcast, SciClips, Weird Weather on 07 31st, 2007 | No Comments
Hurricane Helper
Sea Surface Temperature July 29, 2007
No fewer than 16 studies have found that hurricanes are getting more intense. And, they point to global warming as the culprit. But it’s been difficult to determine if there are more hurricanes as a result. New research has found a remarkable increase in...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips on 07 27th, 2007 | No Comments
Quantum Order
Dr. Collin Broholm
It’s not a Harry Potter-esque secret society. But it is a bit mystical. Quantum order extends over many atoms and is not confined to an individual atom.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips on 07 26th, 2007 | No Comments
Seeing Chaos
Dr. Jeffrey Olafsen, courtesy of Baylor University
For the first time, a basic assumption of physics called molecular chaos, has been proven in the lab. A team of Baylor University physicists created a model out of ball-bearings.
See the movie here.
Molecular Chaos
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 07 25th, 2007 | No Comments
Fossil Figure
Ken Ham, CEO courtesy of the Creation Museum
The new Kentucky-based Creation Museum is drawing fire from a peaceable bunch of scientists. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists is outraged by the lack of science at the museum and considers the founder a fossil, himself.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Solar on 07 24th, 2007 | No Comments
Lightbulb Moment
Christiana Honsberg and Allen Burnett courtesy of University of Delaware
Solar energy could change the way electricity flows in the very near future. And, Very High Efficiency Solar Cells (VHESC) could pave the way to that brighter future, now that cells with 50 percent efficiency are in sight.
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Memory Stick
Dr. Edward Awh courtesy of University of Oregon
There’s a perfectly good explanation why we can’t remember everything. …Uh, what was it again?
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biotechnology, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 07 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Gel Guys
Darrin Pochan and Joel Schneider photo by: Kathy Atkinson, University of Delaware
Two unlikely partners–call them the Felix and Oscar of science–are helping to fuel the biotechnology revolution with their hydrogels.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Endangered Species, Podcast, SciClips on 07 19th, 2007 | No Comments
Butterfly Back
photo by: Larry Orsak
For the blue butterfly in Southern California, all is not lost. The species that only months ago was near extinction is making a come back.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 07 18th, 2007 | No Comments
Nuke Quake
International Nuclear Event Scale
The nuclear threat most people worry about is not from below. But earthquakes pose a serious threat to power plants, especially in quake-prone nations like Japan.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 07 17th, 2007 | No Comments
Faster Universe
Gruber Prize winner Dr. Saul Perlmutter climbs into Tarantula nebula in 1987
This week, a group of scientists received a $500,000 award for discovering that the universe is rapidly accelerating. The discovery is almost ten years old but the discoveries it spawned are still reverberating through space.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Energy, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips on 07 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Biomass Appeal
courtesy of PNNL
What if plastic could be made from a recyclable material instead of petroleum by-products? Well, a group of chemists is hot on the trail of a catalyst that will convert sugar into polyesters.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips on 07 13th, 2007 | 3 Comments
Organic Dose
Holly Dolliver, the lead scientist in this study, notes that antibiotics consumed by plants may be of particular concern to the organic farming industry.
Even when plants are perfectly healthy, it turns out that we are giving them medicine. New research has found animal antibiotics in soil are being...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Geology, New Species, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 07 12th, 2007 | No Comments
Soiled Again
courtesy of NSF
Washington state will not be the home to the world’s deepest underground science lab. That distinction is going to South Dakota where scientists in the not too distant future will conduct research on dark energy, earthquakes and micro organisms.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Global Warming, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 07 11th, 2007 | No Comments
Ice Jam
A band of merry scientists rocked Antarctica July 1, becoming the first group to perform on the icy continent. The wintery twilight of the Antarctic peninsula makes a stunning back drop.
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