Archives for July, 2008
More Advanced Rainfall Predictions
Weather forecasters would now be able to predict in advance with more precision that when and where heavy rainfalls are expected. This development was made during the research work which started after heavy destruction of floods in the last summer which affected large parts of England. Met Office gave the statement and claimed that this scientific development would now make it possible to predict floods one day more before. Not only this bu...
British Company Unveiled Hydrogen Fuelling System (Part 2)
The second major component is its internal combustion generator. The function of this generator is to convert the gas into electric power. This electric power could be used for any domestic need. This station is being publically demonstrated heating, cooking and operating a fridge in Sheffield. The critical element of this is how much it would cost to put such a refueling station in your home. The technology is very plausible but there a...
British Company Unveiled Hydrogen Fuelling System (Part 1)
A new hydrogen refueling station has been introduced by the ITM - British company. The company is leading innovator within the alternative energy source industries. This station could be installed in the home and would be a best alternative to visiting a petrol station. To comply with this new technology hydrogen-powered cars are also going to set in production. The interesting thing about this is that this could also be used for heating an...
Tiny Scanner Will Be Used To Monitor Astronauts Mental Health
The working schedules are extremely heavy in space as they remain in touch with the earth centers with the video connections and astronauts have a little time to enjoy their private time. The situation is very tense in space strong mental health is needed there. In a near future, doctors would be able to look into an astronaut space life through portable brain scanner. This could be highly helpful in examining the mental health of the astr...
Self Cleaning Membrane Avoids The Attention Of Cells (Part 2)
The temperature was lowered down to 25 C. At that temperature hydrogel started absorbing water and swelling and then it was again raised up to 37 C. By doing in this way, researchers saw that around 80% of the attached cells dropped by. The fellow researchers of Giant repeated the temperature change procedure every 60 minute, and continued to do it for four hours. After the experiment the researchers said that a sensor coated fully with the...
Self Cleaning Membrane Avoids The Attention Of Cells (Part 1)
The surface which could clean it by itself and combat with the immune response of the body could increase the life of biosensors inside the human body. The sensors implanted beneath the skin give continuous information therefore this technique is considered as the easiest and simplest way to get reports on chronic diseases like diabetes. The implanted sensors continue working in the right manner as long as its surface remains clean. But...
Advanced PET Scanner To Early Diagnose The Disease (Part 2)
The imaging results of the semiconductor-based detectors are much better than the conventional detectors. The reason is that these semiconductor-based detectors are smaller and thinner in size and could be easily adjusted and arranged than others. This advancement in technology renders higher spatial resolution and images with less noise and without irrelevant information. This device also carries depth of interaction (DOI) which is a detectin...
Advanced PET Scanner To Early Diagnose The Disease (Part 1)
The study on PET brain scanner showed that this technology could be advanced more in quality and spatial resolution of PET imaging. This is said by the team of medical researchers. PET stands for positron emission tomography. This is a prototype scanner in which semiconductor detectors are used. This prototype has already been used for characterizing the brain disorder disease – epilepsy – and nasopharyngeal cancer. It proved successful...
Animal Excreta As A Source To Produce Electricity
American scientists say that it could be very useful to use animal faeces as a fuel source. Through this fuel-source energy could be produced especially in the form of electric power. It is also being claimed that if it be done this would generate three percent of the energy needs of the whole North America. A research work is going on in the Institute of Physics journal Environmental Research Letters. It is reported that this process would...
Discovery Of Cost Effect Bio Fuels
The young students and professors who are doing research work in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology made a discovery on natural vegetable oils. They said that these oils are having the capacity to be a substitute for motor oil mixtures generally used as lubricants for two-stroke engines. They succeeded on developing and examining the various methods to make cost-effective bio-fuels derived from different origins. They remained busy on cond...
New Technology Helping In The Research Work On Penguin Lives
Scientists succeeded to develop a technology which would be very useful in the research work being made on penguin lives. According to the news this new technology will monitor the movement of the endangered penguins without disturbing their private lives. The researchers working in the University of Bristol have done that job. By adopting this new technology scientists would be able to get all the information they needed from far away. The...
Robots To Replace Men In Space For Repair Work
In space there would be more robots and fewer astronauts in the coming time. This is the idea given by three European aerospace engineers who believe that the crewed satellites sent to repair missions are much expensive and wasteful as we saw recently astronauts flown by NASA to repair the Hubble Space Telescope which cost much high. These three scientists are Alex Ellery, Joerg Kreidsel and Bernd Sommer. The statement was given in the jour...
GIS System To Better Control Wildfire (Part 2)
Single click would add up new data to the GIS map and the latest information is on the desktop. Before the creation of this new GIS maps, Kaye has to adopt a difficult task of searching different sites to get the required weather updates. She says; "To be able to access all that data at once would really be useful -- make things much smoother" That becomes more critical when it is a matter of lives. The new method will enable the user...
GIS System To Better Control Wildfire (Part 1)
Scientists have now achieved the task of integrating GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and weather reports together; this would be appeared as a visual display on the desktop. They created a new map having the features of collecting, layering and analyzing information from different origins. Individual manager would be able to integrate weather information scattered on different resource websites with this software. Every common person i...
Underwater Time-Reverse Technique
Wireless communication is difficult in the ocean. The reason for that is water molecules absorbs radio waves efficiently. An acoustic signal travel well but reduces in quality due to echoes, ambient noise, swirling currents and water absorbing the signals. The technique named by acoustic time reversal can cover up the above mentioned problems. It transmits and cleans up the underwater signals and thus increases the range and capacity of sig...
