Dispatch: Global Storming
In the midst of the tropical storm season and on the heels of a recent climatology study published in the journal Nature, Robert Krulwich and Jonah Lehrer got to talking about hurricanes.
Robert Krulwich, Jonah Lehrer
June 2006
Monthly Archive
Dispatch: Global Storming In the midst of the tropical storm
Posted by sciencewatch on 25 Jun 2006 5:24 pm. Filed under General Science News.
Feature Article: Dependable Software by Design Powerful new analytical tools
Posted by sciencewatch on 25 Jun 2006 5:18 am. Filed under General Science News.
Feature Article: Dependable Software by Design
Powerful new analytical tools should help ensure the reliability of the huge computer programs that run banking, communications and other industrial systems
Daniel Jackson
Drops of liquid exhibit surprising self-propulsion on ratcheted surfaces Cooks
Posted by sciencewatch on 24 Jun 2006 5:35 pm. Filed under General Science News.
Drops of liquid exhibit surprising self-propulsion on ratcheted surfaces
Cooks use the Leidenfrost effect to see when skillets are hot enough. Some day it may serve to keep microprocessor arrays cool.
Feature Article: The Secrets of Supervolcanoes Four times in the
Posted by sciencewatch on 24 Jun 2006 5:32 am. Filed under General Science News.
Feature Article: The Secrets of Supervolcanoes
Four times in the past, titanic upheavals in California and Wyoming have covered much of North America under two feet of volcanic ash. Tiny crystals offer clues about the world’s most devastating eruptions
Ilya N. Bindeman
Fish Surgery Veterinary medicine has caught up with Americans’ love
Posted by sciencewatch on 23 Jun 2006 5:30 pm. Filed under General Science News.
Fish Surgery
Veterinary medicine has caught up with Americans’ love for their number one choice of pet: the fish.
NOVA scienceNOW
Drops of liquid exhibit surprising self-propulsion on ratcheted surfaces Cooks
Posted by sciencewatch on 23 Jun 2006 5:28 am. Filed under General Science News.
Drops of liquid exhibit surprising self-propulsion on ratcheted surfaces
Cooks use the Leidenfrost effect to see when skillets are hot enough. Some day it may serve to keep microprocessor arrays cool.
Physics Update: Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
Posted by sciencewatch on 22 Jun 2006 5:22 pm. Filed under General Science News.
Physics Update: Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can excite artificial molecules. A lithographically fabricated quantum dot allows electrons only a restricted menu of energies.
Anti Gravity: Up the Lazy Creek Leadership at FEMA is
Posted by sciencewatch on 22 Jun 2006 5:12 am. Filed under General Science News.
Anti Gravity: Up the Lazy Creek
Leadership at FEMA is outMoDeD
Steve Mirsky
Sustainable Developments: The New Geopolitics A new column on the
Posted by sciencewatch on 21 Jun 2006 5:16 pm. Filed under General Science News.
Sustainable Developments: The New Geopolitics
A new column on the science driving geopolitics
Jeffrey Sachs
An Alternative to your Alternator New thermophotovoltaic materials could replace
Posted by sciencewatch on 21 Jun 2006 5:19 am. Filed under General Science News.
An Alternative to your Alternator
New thermophotovoltaic materials could replace alternators in cars and save fuel.