Sport science is a collection of scientific disciplines that work together to improve the performance of a given athlete. This can cover the way an athlete sleeps to the food they eat and when they eat it. It can also cover the cloth they wear and the manner in which they train and how often they train…
Sports Science & Improving Sporting Performance
Posted by on July 16th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsTime Travel And The Mind
Posted by on July 11th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsWhat are you doing when you are doing nothing at all?
Scientists have discover that when we are performing mental tasks, taking tests, adding or subtracting, some areas of our brains are very active. Scientists have also discovered that when some areas of our brains become active, other areas of the brain become dark…
Science Of Laser Printing
Posted by on June 26th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsSome people are not aware of what it takes to transfer a color image to a piece of copy paper. They might be familiar with the concepts that were used when people used dot matrix printers. How hard is it to imagine a ink cartridge moving back and forth to get characters on a piece of paper?..
Destination: Saturn
Posted by on June 20th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsAlight to the sixth planet from the sun, a haloed, vaporous tumult of a world that promises to exhilarate your senses and reveal celestial secrets from the Milky Way’s distant past.
Overview
Saturn has for centuries been a numinous enigma in the night sky; from its historic, mythological perception as the ominous, evil-eyed figure who could scald onlookers with one swift gaze to its modern-day intrigue surrounding its many dozens of glimmering satellites and dynamically charged magnetosphere.
“An arduous, seven year journey that will likely exercise your patience and endurance.”
Deferring only to Jupiter in size, Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system - with a volume 755 times more massive than the Earth - and bears a similarly Jovian composition of gaseous hydrogen and helium…
Cheltenham Festival ‘07
Posted by on June 12th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsCheltenham Science Festival takes place every year in the beautiful town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, UK.
Science festivals. The sorts of events that are frequented by those who have been described as “the cheese and wine people”…
Melamine Toxicity Testing - Practical or Political, Its Here to Stay
Posted by on June 5th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsMelamine (1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine) is a very useful organic trimer of cyanide, with the formula C3H6N6. It is used in the resins of many glues, plastics, as a plastic pigment and in some inks. It is relatively non-toxic (with a similar lethal dose as table salt), and was for a time considered as a nitrogen supplement for livestock…
Biodiesel Testing - Quality and Purity Testing Increase Confidence And Assure Results
Posted by on June 5th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsBiodiesel and biofuel production is growing at an exponentially increasing rate as new test-bed plants and full production facilities are being approved every month across Europe, Asia, and the Americas…
The 2007 Pet Food Crisis: Was it Preventable?
Posted by on June 4th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsIf you’re a pet owner, you probably heard about it. In February and March of this year, news organizations reported a sudden and alarming epidemic of kidney failure among cats and dogs…
Die Casting: The Process And The Techniques
Posted by on June 1st, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsWhat is die casting? Essentially, die casting uses steel molds called dies which molten metal is forced into using extremely high pressure…
Changing the Information Flow from Your DNA can Change Your Life
Posted by on May 28th, 2007 in Science · 0 CommentsWhen James Watson and Francis Crick first discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 they thought they had discovered the secret of life. This complex nucleic acid was capable of storing all of the information necessary to produce and maintain a living organism…