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Graphene windows' clearer focus
8 April 2012Last updated at 03:44 ET Pockets formed in the graphene sheets allowed the team to study liquids at higher resolution The carbon-based material graphene can help scientists study liquids more clearly with high-power microscopes. Details of the advance are reported in Science journal. Graphene can form a clear "window" to see liquids at higher resolution than was previously possible using transmission electron microscopes. Liquids had been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids because these microscopes require the liquids to be encapsulated by some material. Traditionally, silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules, or liquid cells, have been used. Now, Jong Min Yuk at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues have shown that pockets created by sheets of graphene can be used to study liquids at clear, atomic, resolution using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs). They noted how the crystals selectively coalesced and modified their shape. Graphene
The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World’s Toughest Race - Elite Feet
The legendary story of Cliff Young is already known to many runners. If you aren't familiar with it, you're in for a fascinating read. An Unlikely Competitor Cliff Young Every year, Australia hosts 543.7-mile (875-kilometer) endurance racing from Sydney to Melbourne. It is considered among the world's most grueling ultra-marathons. In 1983, a man named Cliff Young showed up at the start of this race. The press and other athletes became curious and questioned Cliff. When the race started, the pros quickly left Cliff behind. The Tortoise and the Hare All of the professional athletes knew that it took about 5 days to finish the race. When the morning of the second day came, everyone was in for another surprise. Eventually Cliff was asked about his tactics for the rest of the race. Cliff kept running. When Cliff was awarded the winning prize of $10,000, he said he didn't know there was a prize and insisted that he did not enter for the money. Continued Inspiration
Engineering News, Date
February 3, 2003 Vol.73, no. 3S ME student discovers a unique fact about polar bears Everyone knows that polar bears are furry and cute, but few know that sometimes they can also be invisible. While still an ME undergrad at Berkeley, Jessica Preciado plumbed the icy depths of a question that already had the whole natural science community buzzing. A few years ago, scientists doing an aerial census of the polar bear population in the arctic encountered a problem. “Everyone got really excited about this, particularly the military because it could have ramifications for creating infrared camouflage in cold climates,” says Preciado. The excitement calmed when it was hypothesized that the reason for the invisibility was the polar bear’s deep layers of blubber and fur, which trap body heat below their skins, making the polar bears’ surface temperatures the same as the snow. “Infrared detection functions not only by surface temperature, but also by the radiative properties of hair and skin.
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E-Textile Research Lab
E-Textiles Lab Advancing research in e-textiles. What are E-Textiles? Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that have electronics and interconnections woven into them, with physical flexibility and size that cannot be achieved with existing electronic manufacturing techniques. Components and interconnections are intrinsic to the fabric and thus are less visible and not susceptible to becoming tangled together or snagged by the surroundings. An e-textile can be worn in everyday situations where currently available wearable computers would hinder the user. Funding This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. Washington Post feature on E-Textile Lab ECE's E-textile lab was featured in the Washington Post's Health Section on October 9, 2007 "E-Textiles" May Give "Custom Tailoring" New Meaning Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2007) October 11-13, 2007 - Boston, MA ISWC 2007 Web Site E-Textiles Lab on TV news
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York Times Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Michael’s problems started, according to his mother, around age 3, shortly after his brother Allan was born. At the time, she said, Michael was mostly just acting “like a brat,” but his behavior soon escalated to throwing tantrums during which he would scream and shriek inconsolably. These weren’t ordinary toddler’s fits. “It wasn’t, ‘I’m tired’ or ‘I’m frustrated’ — the normal things kids do,” Anne remembered.
