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Walid Damouny

New coating helps wipe grease off with water - Innovation- msnbc.com - 0 views

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    A new eco-friendly coating is made by binding a water-loving molecule to a Teflon-like molecule that repels oil. This pairing makes for a surface that prevents oil from sticking to it, while also allowing it to be wet by water.
anonymous

Advanced Material Science Research To Enhance Ceramic Engine - 1 views

Material science is the science that is involved with the process of understanding material universe and make optimum use of them. It is a known fact that, the physical body is made up of different...

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susanbelly

How Fiber Optics Work? - 2 views

To understand how fiber optic cables work, imagine an infinitely long drinking straw or flexible plastic tube. For example, imagine a pipeline that is several kilometers long. Now, suppose the inne...

Science research TECHNOLOGY

started by susanbelly on 10 Mar 22 no follow-up yet
Walid Damouny

Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - 1 views

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    "Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner."
Skeptical Debunker

'Hella' Proposed as Official Big Number - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • To become official, "hella" would have to jump through quite a few bureaucratic hoops. It would have to pass through the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU), one of 10 advisory committees of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM). If the CCU recommends it the CIPM, that board must then decide whether to advance the cause to the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), the official authority that can make changes to the SI system. That international organization, based in France, includes members from 81 countries. "I think that for a number of reasons it's a long shot," said Ben Stein, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. organization that handles measurements. "The types of things they would consider are is it needed, does it add or reduce confusion, are the names consistent with other names associated with the prefixes?" Sendek argues that the name would honor the scientific contributions of Northern Californians, who have famously popularized the phrase "hella" to mean "a whole lot."
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    Soon the word "hella" may not be associated with California surfers as much as with scientists in lab coats. A physics student is petitioning to add "hella" to the International System of Units (SI) as the official designation of 10 to the 27th power, or a trillion trillions.
Walid Damouny

Diamond coatings are branching out - physicsworld.com - 0 views

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    Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material.
Charles Daney

Dogs: Kids in Fur Coats? -- ScienceNOW - 0 views

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    Dog owners often compare their pets to toddlers; many even treat their pooches like kids. It's easy to label such comparisons sentimental. But a new study suggests that the owners are right. A team of scientists has discovered that dogs behave surprisingly like 10-month-old infants on a classic psychological test--though there is one important difference.
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