Archive for January, 2012
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 [...]
January 27th, 2012 | Posted in Technology and Science, The Environment | No Comments
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 [...]
January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Technology and Science | No Comments
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 [...]
January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Space, Who Discovered? | No Comments
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 [...]
January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Health and Precautions | No Comments
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 [...]
January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Who Discovered? | No Comments
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 [...]
January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Technology and Science | No Comments
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 [...]
January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Who Discovered? | No Comments
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 [...]
January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Health and Precautions | No Comments
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 [...]
January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Energy Sources, The Environment | No Comments
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 [...]
January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Technology and Science | No Comments