Physics inventions in the year 2002

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...ch centre when it began the development of the first intraoperative MRI scanner in the world. The NeuroArm required an international collaboration of professionals from different fields, including physics, software, optics and mechanics. Dr. Sutherland outlined that the team is not only looking forward to create a robot, their creation is going to build a medical robotics program. "We want the neuroArm technology to...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...lgium, Italy and Denmark. Only the European countries and China will receive financial aid from the European Union. The coordinator of Modecom is Dr Alison Walker, who represents the Department of Physics of the University of Bath. "This is a long-term project, and the contributions of many scientists are needed for its success ... Success in achieving the goals of cheap, efficient and long lasting devices is essentia...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu...
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	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...d cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments. During a 12 days' flight there were 26 unique experiments conducted in chemistry, biology, physics and bio-technology, funded by Russia and the European Space Agency. Mice were placed in air-tight module cells equipped with life-support system, were they were videotaped. Scientists tried to study the impact of ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...indhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands was applauded for the study of all the insects, bacteria, fungi, shellfish, mites, ferns and other living things that sleep with us each night. Physics L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled. Chemistry Japanese scientist Mayu Yamam...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
... It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their researches ...
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	Recordings on Predicting the Existence of Parallel Worlds Found
...oting for several universes were all the possibilities of life play out. Presumably the tapes were recorded in 1977. This was the year when the physicist presented his idea on parallel worlds at a physics conference. His theory was lying rejected for 2 decades after finally coming to life in 1977. The tapes disappeared after the scientist's death in 1982. Tapes were discovered during a TV documentary filming. The do...
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	Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor
...n event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison. The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines. T...
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	The Evolution of the First Stars that Lighted Up the Universe Revealed
...cientists, the information collected by the WMAP proves the theories linked with the level of helium observed today. The early Universe resembled a hot, nuclear reactor that produced helium. Particle physics state that because of such resemblance, there must have been a sea of neutrinos. The data from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy probe also gives evidence that it took a very long period of time for the stars to start...
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	Scientists Discovered the Smallest Black Hole
... the oscillation of hot gas that amassed near the black hole as it absorbs matter. The method applied by the researchers was mentioned at the meeting of American Astronomical Society High-Energy Astrophysics Division held in Los Angeles. According to scientists the mass of J1650 is of 3.8 Suns and it would be about 15 mile across. "This makes the black hole one of the smallest objects ever discovered outside our solar ...
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	Terawatt Laser Beam Shot in the Clouds Provokes Lightning Strike
...nd. It is worth mentioning that for the first time the proposal of using laser to provoke thunderbolts was made in 1970s, but back then there was no laser powerful enough to achieve the goal. In physics laboratories scientists widely use the powerful lasers that can create terawatts of energy. But to make an experiment outdoors, researchers applied a new type of laser, named Teramobile, the creation of which was the ...
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	Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US
...r a period of one week. Researchers performed their study using cell phone records provided by a private company, which was not revealed. Cesar Hidalgo is the co-author of the study. He works as a physics researcher at Northeastern University. He mentioned that neither he nor his colleagues possessed the individual phone numbers, due to the fact that they were covered by "ugly" 26-digit-and-letter codes. Rob Kenny, ...
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	Biofilm Bacteria Protect Themselves With Chemical Weapons
...According to the researchers from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, they were able to discover the strategies that biofilm bacteria use. In most cases biofilm bacteria develop in crowds and squat on areas where they create a community with other bacteria. They can develop on any surface to which bacteria can affix to. It is interesting to note that these biofilms cannot be destroyed by any disinfectants and a...
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	Total Solar Eclipse Starts August 1st 2008
... time on the territory close to the windswept high grasslands located northeast of a small village called Yiwu. The total solar eclipse is going to be captured by a team of Exploratorium and heliophysics experts from NASA, who will broadcast the event from a specially chosen international location. Anyone will be able to watch the total eclipse: whether from a planetarium, museum of simply from a computer. On the ...
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