NewScientist The Last Word - Index page Bathed in heat I had a hot bath one evening and decided not to let all the heat go to waste. So I left the plug in until the water had given up all of its heat to the house. But when is the best time to pull the plug out? Should I wait until the water is the same temperature as the ambient indoors air, or should I keep the extra thermal mass in the bathtub, and then pull the plug when the temperature outside the house is at its lowest? Best before? What is it that allows fruitcake to survive so long? Condiment cleaner I recently read with interest in The Last Word of somebody using lemon juice to clean a bar top made of zinc.
AWIS Getting a graduate job in engineering and manufacturing In order to achieve a graduate job in the industry, you'll need to tick a number of different boxes Do I need a relevant degree? A degree in an engineering or technology-related subject is usually necessary to work in this sector. Engineering - To gain employment as an engineer you will need a relevant degree. However there are areas of this sector that will not require an engineering degree, such as finance and accounting, human resources (HR), management and marketing and communications. What skills do employers want? Graduate employers within the engineering and manufacturing sector require candidates with: analytical and problem-solving skills; awareness of statutory, industry and company health and safety practices applicable to the job role; innovation; a high standard of numeracy, literacy and computing skills; planning and organisation skills. Where can I get work experience? Some larger companies even offer paid internships to students, with the National Grid being one example.
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Career planning for researchers - University of Leeds Careers Centre Career planning for researchers Career planning strategy for research students Employers increasingly value PhD holders as they recognise their high level skills transfer readily into a wide range of sectors. In coming up with a careers strategy, you first need to undertake a self audit. You may have already decided on your future career path. The Careers Centre runs a number of workshops tailored for researchers which can help you with your career planning. Find out more Prospects: Use your Qualification - Lists of jobs related to your degree.
Bacteria may communicate through nanowires Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, possibly communicating and sharing energy. “This is the first measurement of electron transport along biological nanowires produced by bacteria,” said Mohamed El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California. He says that the discovery could help find ways to destroy harmful colonies, such as biofilms, and also help with the development of bacterial fuel cells. “The flow of electrons in various directions is intimately tied to the metabolic status of different parts of the biofilm,” El-Naggar said. “Bacterial nanowires can provide the necessary links for the survival of a microbial circuit.” To test the conductivity of the nanowires, the researchers grew cultures of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a microbe previously discovered by co-author Kenneth Nealson. The bacteria were then deposited on a surface dotted with microscopic electrodes.
This engineer created a fool-proof plan to overcome shyness — and it led her to jobs at Apple, Google, and now Microsoft Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough Antihydrogen atoms were trapped in a magnetic fieldMatter and antimatter annihilate each other on contact"It's taken us five years to get here," says Professor Jeffrey HangstCERN's next ambition is to create a beam of antimatter (CNN) -- Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe. Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap. This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter. Understanding antimatter is one of the biggest challenges facing science -- most theoretical physicists and cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and antimatter were produced in equal amounts. However, as our world is made up of matter, antimatter seems to have disappeared.
Instant Zombie – Just Add Salt. | Science Sushi Those of you who follow me on Google+, facebook or twitter might have seen this neat little video: Yeah, it freaked me out, too. But this little cephalopod isn’t actually alive – he’s just very freshly dead. A similar phenomenon can be seen in these frog legs: How are these dead body parts being brought back to life? These clever cooks are capitalizing on biology to put on a show. All cells are polarized, which means the concentrations of charged atoms, called ions, of the fluid inside them is different from the fluid outside them. Neurons are highly specialized cells which process and transmit electrical signals. When a creature dies, its neurons don’t stop working right away. What you might have noticed is that in the case of the dancing dead, the cooks have added one key ingredient: salt (soy sauce is very salty). So there you have it – take freshly killed muscle, add salt, and voila!
Newest Canary Island pictured rising from the deep Chelsea Whyte, contributor The recent earthquakes in the Canary Islands of late aren't due to Poseidon the earth-shaker, but a submarine volcano to the south of the island of El Hierro. Hot magma spewing from beneath the surface of the ocean has injected volcanic chemicals into the water, staining the sea green. Ocean waters have been churning with heat and seafloor sediment spewed from the volcano's plume, which stretches tens of kilometres under water. The island of El Hierro sits on a tectonic hot spot in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco, and the volcano off its shores has been erupting since mid-October.