July 16, 2009 Back earlier in summer when I was packing for this trip, I had various thoughts about this summer institute program: ‘How much can science and art possibly be similar? What kind of work am I about to be assigned? Is this more worth it than my regular summer of relaxation?’ The car […]
July 15, 2009 When I walked inside, I found myself in a pitch black room. The walls were not normal but covered with thin, rectangular plates. There was even no floor available; it was basically a huge fence put on flat on the ground. But the weirdest part was the fact that it was soundproof. […]
July 14, 2009 During the morning PowerPoint lecture, the Morph phone concept by Nokia was displayed. This was an example of ‘imagining the impossible’; although the idea seemed too futuristic to become true, scientists are working on it to make it a reality soon. The main idea behind the Morph concept phone is the use […]
July 13, 2009 Today I went to the Basic Plasma Science Facility which performs frontier-level research of the plasma state of matter. It is a misconception that the space in between the Sun and the planets is a vacuum devoid of matter. However space is actually not empty, for the big, hot Sun constantly emits […]
July 10, 2009 There are 3.4 million cases of anemia in the United States with a rate of about 4,500 deaths per year. Anemia is a condition in which are not enough healthy red blood cells in the body, which can be detected when there is an insufficient level of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin […]
Humanity has been excessively using fossil fuels to meet our energy needs in life. However these sources are limited and will eventually disappear. Therefore scientists have been trying to develop new, innovative methods to create and store energy. Such an example is solar energy. The sun exerts nine to ten times more energy than the […]
There was a time when nanotechnology was a term that nobody knew. Some people even today think the iPod nano is nanotechnology. However there is an observable pattern that nanotechnology is becoming more and more part of pop culture. Now days, nanotechnology is being used in everyday objects that make people’s lives convenient such as […]
Just when scientists thought they explored the whole world, numerous more arrived. During the Renaissance, the light microscope was developed which was the first instrument that enabled the human eye to observe enlarged images of infinitesimal objects. This incredible invention brought fascinating detail of the tiny worlds invisible to the naked eye. About 1950, Dutch […]