A new report reveals that pretty soon galaxies will be unable to produce new stars. The reason according to the study is that the universe is running out of gas; hydrogen to be specific. When that gas is gone galaxies will lose one of the necessary building blocks for stars. The study was headed by [...]
Florian Beutler, a Ph.D. student at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Australia has arrived at a means of determining how fast the Universe is expanding, with the most accurate measurement ever made. Beutler has calculated the speed at which the Universe is expanding by means of the Hubble constant. He [...]
Human beings today hold the future of this planet, and the life it contains, in our hands. On The Origin of Tomorrow, the final essay in the Science Origin’s series, this message is pointed out quite clearly for readers. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species, many theories continue [...]
From the time as an eighth-grader when she studied thyroid hormone levels on a rat colony in her family’s living room through years of medical studies and a residency at John’s Hopkins, to becoming the associate clinical research dean and director at–OSU–Ohio State University’s CCTS–Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Rebecca Jackson let nothing stand [...]
Anyone who has ever watched Star Trek knows what a cloaking device is. In that case, an object–a star ship, for instance–could be cloaked from view. The idea of cloaking a period of time with an invisibility cloak is a concept engineers and physicists have been working on recently. Moti Fridman and Alexander Gaeta, Cornell [...]
Everyone’s heard of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, but the world needs to address more than smokestacks and car exhausts. Below is a list of five areas necessary to build a sustainable world economy: 1. The Green Revolution brought technology to agriculture and ended imminent starvation for millions. Discrepancies in wealth, food distribution, and public policy [...]
Everybody wants energy that won’t hurt the environment. But just how realistic is the ideal? Scientists in three key areas have been looking at the problems. Wind John Dabiri, is a dynamic fluids expert as Caltech. He is involved in researching ways to harness freely blowing wind and convert it into practical electricity. The main [...]
The planet Earth is in dire need of help. From pollution on land and in the sea to the harming and killing of animals, damage to this world is on the increase. It is now vital to the planet’s survival that people band together and make serious changes. Greenpeace is an Australian organization that uses [...]
