Electric Plonk.
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff:
… Read the rest “Electric Plonk.”It is backed by a decade of research, the results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal and the end product
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Einstein’s Fridge
Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which is, if you think about it, … Read the rest “Einstein’s Fridge”
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all:
… Read the rest “Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.”…[I]t may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way to take atoms apart using his guitar amp:
… Read the rest “For That Atomic Guitar Sound.”Murray’s
Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.
WebMD reports on the first clinical application for using really big magnets to zap depressed people’s brain waves:
… Read the rest “Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.”The clearance comes nearly two years after a January 2007 FDA
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree power” company… Read the rest “If a potato can power a clock…”