How To Make Lighter and Thinner Magnesium Components? (06 Nov 2005)
Magnesium is the lightest structural material offering very good damping characteristics, weldability and excellent shielding against electro-magnetic interferance, and is unlimited in supply. It has been an excellent material for making portable ...
Using Biotechnology to Fight Diarrhea (23 Mar 2006)
A common mortal from a developed country would be hard to convince that in Southeast Asia and Africa, diarrhea is responsible for as much as 8.5% and 7.7%, respectively. Yet this is the stark reality. Diarrhea is mostly caused by gastrointestinal ...
Biotechnology: Zimbabwe Must Learn From China (15 Feb 2006)
Ever heard of the saying, you cannot bite the hand that feeds you?.Shunned by the West for oppressing his people, Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has turned to China for comradeship. Two weeks ago, Mugabe and his lieutenants were in China - o...
What a Stale Argument! (22 Jan 2006)
Does politics has a place in genetically modified (GM) food debate? "No", is the obvious answer. Politics and science are such sworn adversaries that they cannot eat from the same plate. Politics mainly thrive on propaganda, vilification, name-cal...
Coordination and Biotech Research (26 Oct 2005)
One of the reasons why Africa and other poor regions of the world trail in crop biotechnology is lack of collaboration and coordination among scientists. There are millions of well-trained crop biotechnologists in poor countries. But due to resour...
Grandfather Paradox, Time Travel and The Human Mind (01 Sep 2005)
Many people who engage in intellectual thought like to discuss time. For some reason many people have been trapped in thought over the "Grandfather Paradox" of time travel; that is to say; what if you go back in time and meet your grandfather befo...
Zero Point Technology and Physics Applied (22 Sep 2005)
What is the nature of life? This is a long-pondered question and the debate rages on between promoters of a particulate or an energy-filled universe. What do you think? Does it matter?
In reality it does matter. Because if we understand that...
Saber-toothed Tiger Became Younger (01 Nov 2005)
Reasonable men found saber-toothed tigers. Shock
Science world went through next shock as says "Holland Horizon" magazine. A small bone that a fisher man from Urk, Northern Holland found in his fishing net appeared to be a fragment of a jaw. And t...
The Interesting Eagle Nebula (21 Feb 2006)
The Eagle Nebula, associated with open star cluster M16 of the Milky Way, was named for its dramatic similarity to the appearance of an eagle. Located 7000 light years from Earth, it is a component of the constellation Serpens (for Serpent). It ...
Hubble Space Telescope-Seeing Beyond the Milky Way (22 Aug 2005)
The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed scientists and the rest of the world a look into outer space that was not even imagined one hundred years ago. In fact, it is only in the last one hundred years that it was discovered that there are millions...
Metal Pipe and Tube Bending (16 Apr 2006)
Even as a child, you were probably bending metal. You might have been bending metal paper clips, or even your parents' cutlery. Or you might have preferred making pipe-cleaner clowns. Or you could have just stuck to bending the toothpast...
Aircraft Materials and Lifetime Consideration in Aerospace (29 Mar 2006)
As modern aircraft use more space age materials we will see more strength and less weight and thus more performance and useful load capabilities. But each time we move to new materials we learn of other issues, which arise. Issues such as some Ste...
Ionized Invisible Aircrafts (06 May 2006)
Plasma technology is something that we are starting to see all over the place. Plasma screens have taken a huge place in the entertainment market majoring in tv screens, but showing up in all other places in the market.
Plasma stealth althou...
A New Science for a New Climate (01 Nov 2005)
At first glance it's hard to imagine how the proliferation of human activity upon the
environment has been a major factor in climate change given that climate change
alone is nothing new. Over two million years the earth's history has seen enorm...
Why Does The Tool Bit Break Easily In Micro Milling? (30 Aug 2005)
Micro milling is one of the three common micro cutting techniques used in micro machining.
In micro milling, the tool bit with diameter as small as 0.1mm is held in a high speed spindle rotating at 20,000 to 150,000 rpm, and used to mill ste...
How To Machine Magnesium? (11 Apr 2006)
Magnesium has been used in manufacturing notebook computer frames, video cameras, digital cameras, PDAs and other consumer electronics products because of its high strength to weight ratio. When magnesium is alloyed with aluminum, the resultant ma...
How to Make a Thermometer (14 Jan 2006)
A thermometer is an instrument that measures the temperature. Depending on what country you live in, temperature is measured either in a scale called Fahrenheit or Celsius (sometimes called Centigrade). There are thermometers for food, humans, an...
Protein Synthesis (21 Aug 2005)
The process of Protein Synthesis involves many parts of the cell, the main stages occur in the nucleus and ribosomes. Unlike other similar productions, this process is very complex and precise and therefore must be done in proper sequence to work ...
Separation of Mitochondria From Leaf Tissue (04 May 2006)
The technique used to separate organelles is referred to as Ultracentrifugation or Subcellular Fractionation. It is used to extract undamaged organelles from tissue and separate them so they structure and Biochemistry can be studied in a greater d...
Intermolecular Forces (10 Dec 2005)
Intermolecular forces are the forces of attraction between molecules with in a compound. These forces cause the compound to exist in a state of matter which is either a solid, liquid or a gas. The forces we are required to know are as follows Van ...
