Sunday, September 6, 2015

Amazing & Funny News Updates

Amazing & Funny News Updates


Dodge Truck vs. Tree (video)

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:29 PM PDT

Witness the awesome pulling power of Dodge truck.

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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News


Fortifying computer chips for space travel

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 04:53 PM PDT

Space is cold, dark, and lonely. Deadly, too, if any one of a million things goes wrong on your spaceship. It's certainly no place for a computer chip to fail, which can happen due to the abundance of radiation bombarding a craft. Worse, ever-shrinking components on microprocessors make computers more prone to damage from high-energy radiation like protons from the sun or cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy.

New nanomaterial maintains conductivity in three dimensions

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 04:49 PM PDT

An international team of scientists has developed a one-step process for making seamless carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties in three dimensions.

New medical device concept could reduce time to diagnose infections

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 04:48 PM PDT

When a patient arrives at a hospital with a serious infection, doctors have precious few minutes to make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe treatment accordingly. A new diagnostic device may significantly reduce the amount of time necessary to diagnose tissue infections.

Nanoporous gold sponge makes DNA detector

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:45 AM PDT

Sponge-like nanoporous gold could be key to new devices to detect disease-causing agents in humans and plants, according to two recent articles.

Climate change could leave Pacific Northwest amphibians high and dry

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:44 AM PDT

A new model for snow-fed mountain wetlands projects that this year's dry conditions could be common by the 2070s, affecting the Cascades frog and other mountain species.

Decontamination exterminates antibiotic-resistant bacteria from pig farm

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 11:44 AM PDT

Decontamination protocols eradicated both methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and antibiotic resistant, pathogenic intestinal bacteria, the Enterobacteriaceae, from a pig farm.