mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2009 | science, electronics, memristor, physics, resistor, capacitor, inductor
An interesting article about the discovery of a new type of electrical device. Based on the equations relating charge and magnetism, Leon Chua deduced that the mathematics of electric circuits was missing an element (one that directly relates charge to magnetic flux) - he dubbed the missing element a memristor.
Now scientists believe they have found a physical device that has this effect ... at nanoscales. The device could have some amazing applications for computation.
Quoted: What connects human intelligence to the unsung cunning of slime moulds? An electric component that no one thought existed, explains Justin Mullins
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 11 2009 | video, science, sulfur hexaflouride
click to playQuoted: Get enchanted by a aluminium foil ship floating above ground on sulphur hexafluoride (gas significantly denser than air) at the Physikshow of the University ...
ShareViewed: 34 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | cosmology, astronomy, radio, science
A high altitude balloon flight in 2006 has reveals a very strong source of background radiation from an unknown source.
Add this to the Dark Matter, and Dark Energy mysteries, and we may have some sort of new cosmological model?
Quoted: Science News: the bi-weekly news magazine of the Society for Science & the Public
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 17 2008 | news, physics, science, swimming
Strange but interesting - stratified warm water layer at the surface can make it very difficult to swim (and even cuts the speed of power boats).
refaving Brad
ShareViewed: 16 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 13 2008 | science, brain, fMRI, imaging
Holy crap! Extracting images directly by brain measurement of the visual cortex!
ShareViewed: 8 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2008 | video, science, biology, ants, concrete
click to playThe ant-equivalent of the disaster of Pompei - this one human made - reveals the structure of an underground ant colony.
ShareViewed: 22 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2008 | yuri gagarin, space, science
Alan Boyle narrated video explains some of the details of Yuri Gagarin's flight. I hadn't realized he ejected from the capsule at 23,000 feet - and parachuted to the ground.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2008 | science, news, msnbc
I met Alan last night at Yuri's night. He's the Science Editor for MSNBC.
Quoted: As MSNBC.com's science editor, Alan Boyle runs a virtual curiosity shop of the physical sciences, space exploration, archaeology and other ologies. He administers a daily dose of science via his award-winning Cosmic Log column.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | astronomy, science, gamma ray, burst, telescope
On March 18th, a very large gamma-ray and optical burst occurred. The source is reported as being 7 billion light years - yet it would have been visible to the naked eye for several minutes before dimming again.
Due to automated systems for sky monitoring, coupled with gamma-ray burst alerts coming from satellites, the even was recorded here in the optical spectrum.
NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/science/space/21bangw.html?_r=2&em&oref=slogin&oref=sloginShareViewed: 5 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 29 2008 | art, science, foundation, philanthropy, simonyi
Charles's foundation web site.
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