Jan
10
Gun Control Is Fixing Blame Not The Problem
January 10, 2013 | 12 Comments
Some politicians and almost all of the mass media think we’re all stupid, and the pollsters often prove the case. Mass murder is a serious problem that rips at the very sense of reason and humanity. There are a few truly wonderful people out there and a few truly horrible ones as well. In some […]
Jan
9
Get Ready For the Ultra LED
January 9, 2013 | 3 Comments
Just when we’re all psyching up for a big race to mass-produced and falling LED prices the news has a big improvement in store. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada inspired by the nighttime twinkling of fireflies have been inspired to modify the light-emitting diode (LED). The firefly design is more than one and a […]
Jan
8
A New Way to Catch and Hold Antimatter
January 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment
A group of researchers from the USA and Canada have proposed a method for cooling trapped the antimatter antihydrogen making it much more stable and a lot easier to experiment on. The new method developed by the group could potentially cool trapped antihydrogen atoms to temperatures 25 times colder than what is already achieved. The […]
Jan
7
Connecting Photosynthesis to Electricity
January 7, 2013 | 2 Comments
A team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich has now found the particular enzyme that is involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. Researchers have been trying to identify the missing link, which turns out to be a protein they call PGRL1, for almost 30 years. LMU biologist Professor Dario Leister together with other members of […]
Jan
4
The Dynamic Duo of Biofuels Is Back
January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment
James Dumesic and George Huber are now both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison leading a team of researchers demonstrating how C5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. Go Badgers! What a team! The great cheer is their research paper is open-access published in […]
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