Archive for January, 2012

A New Detergent To Clean Oil Spills

Tweet Researchers of the University of Bristol have reached to a detergent that can attract the oil spills from the water as a magnet. The detergent is formed from dissolved iron ions in a solution that contains chloride ions, bromide ions and other ions, the solution then works like a magnet that would break the [...]

Seawater Could Corrode Nuclear Fuel

Tweet The major Tsunami that hit Japan in March led to the damage of the nuclear plant Fukushima-Daiichi, as the heat of the reactor kept rising the Japanese tried to cool the reactor by using huge quantities of seawater. Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis have been searching since that time for [...]

Who Discovered The Planets On Our Solar System?

Tweet The planets can be classified to two parts the first is the 4 inner planets that are composed from rocks and metals and they are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The other part is the 4 outer planets which are different in the composition, where Jupiter and Saturn consist of hydrogen and helium, while [...]

Fluorescent Dyes Highlight Neuronal Activity

Tweet University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have announced that the its researchers have reached to new fluorescent dyes that are able to highlight the electric activity in neuronal membranes in order to make those activities optical. The ability to visualize these small, fast-changing voltage differences between the interior and exterior of neurons [...]

Who Discovered Coal?

Tweet Coal is a kind of sedimentary rocks that can be easily combusted. The coal is typically found in layers that was formed hundreds of millions years ago, from buried forests in the presence of high temperature and pressure the . Coal is composed from hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen combined with the main component [...]

Scosche cellCONTROL Prevent The Cell Phones From Working In The Moving Vehicles

Tweet The device is automatically activated when the vehicle is moving, using blue-tooth signals is prevent the cellphone in the vehicle from calling, messaging, emailing and even internet accessing. The device can protect itself from ampering, and it even report it in a message. The device is put in the vehicle’s under-dash OBD-II interface. The [...]

Who Invented The Artificial Pacemaker?

Tweet The artificial pacemaker is the device which controls the heart beats in order to help the patients who have cardiac problems. The idea appeared first in the year 1899, by the British J.A. McWilliam when he discovered that an electrical impulse can affect the heart by controlling the ventricular contractions reaching 60 or 70 [...]

New Endoscope Can Remove All Gallstones

Tweet Gallstone are the crystallized concretion resulted from the bile in the gallbladder. The gallstone must be removed to avoid inflammation conditions or cholecystitis. Typically the gallblader has to be removed completely to avoid the forming of more gallstone. The removing of the gallstone can be by using endoscopic retrograde sphincterotomy in case of that [...]

New Biofuel From Seaweed

Tweet Scientists have searching for other sources of biofuels instead of those that are available now that are made from eatable sources. Researchers from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) announced that they reached a new technology that will use seaweed as a source of a cost effective biomass fuel. They reached a way to engineer a microbe [...]

iPad’s instead of Textbooks

Tweet When someone asks you about elementary school, high school, or even college, I’m sure a rush of mixed feelings flood into your mind. I can also safely assume that in the muck of all those stinky “meh” feelings comes from remembering how terribly painful and annoying it was carrying around and stuffing your back [...]