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Scientists Edge One Step Closer In Solving Physics Of Space Weather

October 29, 2014 By Marlene R. Litten

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Scientists have been eluded for many years in uncovering the reality behind space weather. Although it sounds preposterous, and more alien like, yet space weather has significant importance in our lives. Millions of tons of charged, hot plasma gas is thrust by the Sun, each second. This solar wind collides with the magnetic field surrounding the Earth. As a result, it initiates powerful geomagnetic storms that can damage satellites, blackout power grids and totally disrupt cell phone service.

Researchers are of the view that It is quite important for us to predict these solar outbursts, so that we can effectively take up measures to nullify or reduce their detrimental aspects. Most of the researchers have conducted numerous experiments into realizing the physics behind this space weather, and some of them are about to present their results at the 56th annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics in New Orleans.

Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have revealed that how magnetic reconnection, an explosive phenomenon occurring in solar flares, elevates the solar wind to high energy, and subsequently this solar wind collides with the solar wind surrounding the Earth.

Magnetic reconnection creates huge bursts of plasma from the Sun. But not until recently, scientists had not been able to understand that how could reconnection convert magnetic energy into plasma. Researchers have made ground breaking discoveries in this regard at the Plasma Physics Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. They were able to understand how the transformation of magnetic energy into particle energy takes place, in a Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX). Researchers revealed that the re-connection converts 50% of the magnetic energy into the explosive particle energy. And from the remaining half of the magnetic energy, about one third heats the electrons and the remaining two thirds accelerate the ions in plasma.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: closer, edge, physiscs, scientist, space, space weather, weather

Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest

October 20, 2014 By Carol Harper

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Piotr Naskrecki- an Entomologist and photographer at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology caught a new Puppy-Sized Spider. This spider is also known as the South American Goliath bird-eater, having scientific name, “Theraphosa blondi”. The specimen was taken to the lab afterwards. It was also found that it’s a female. After further study, it has been deposited in a museum finally.

According the Guinness World Record, “the colossal arachnid is the world’s largest spider”. Naskrecki reporting to Live Science stated that

“I was taking a night-time walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when I heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When I turned on the light, I expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat but couldn’t quite understand what I was seeing. Later I realized that it is a puppy sized spider.”

Moreover, he reported that the its leg span can reach up to a foot, may be around 30 centimetres, or about the size of “a child’s forearm,” with a body the size of a large fist. On his blog, he wrote that the spider can weigh more than 6 oz. i.e. 170 grams. It is almost equal to the weight of a young puppy.

Sources also reported that the size of its leg is bigger than the bird eater but it’s more delicate than bird-eater. Naskrecki suggests that comparing the two would be “like comparing a giraffe to an elephant. Its feet have hardened tips and claws that produce a very distinct, clicking sound, not unlike that of a horse’s hooves hitting the ground”.

Moreover he also observed that the spider used to rub its hind legs against the abdomen. Soon he realized that spider was sending out a cloud of hairs with microscopic barbs on them. And when these hairs get in the eyes or other mucous membranes, they are “extremely painful and itchy and can stay there for days.

It has also been reported that the spider is not dangerous to human at all. Even if its bite, it can do no harm to human. The spider basically relies on frogs, insects and earth worms. If it find a nest, it punctures and drink bird’s eggs as well.

Moreover Naskrecki also said,

“Bird-eaters are not very common spiders. I’ve been working in the tropics in South America for many, many years, and in the last 10 to 15 years, I only ran across the spider three times” .

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Live science, puppy, rainforest, Science, scientist, Spider

Particle & Anti-particle, Scientists Make Strange Discovery

October 3, 2014 By Carol Harper

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The long search is over for Princeton University scientists who claim they have discovered a particle, an elusive particle, that has the characteristics of both matter and antimatter.

This discovery was published online at the journal Science.

Already speculation as to what this new particle will be applicable for are being bounced around by scientists. Many people had been taught that if matter came into contact with antimatter that the two would annihilate one another in a burst of powerful energy. Antimatter is rare and to find a particle that has both matter and its antimatter characteristics is enough to make everyone stand up and take notice.

Known as the Majorana fermion, after it’s Italian physicist theorist Ettore Majorana, who postulated it in 1937, this new particle is just what he had envisioned. Scientists had been hunting for the particle for almost 80 years. The Princeton team engineered a basic experiment to see what they referred to as an “emergent particles” that can be found inside a material instead in the vacuum of a giant collider like the Large Hadron Collider that recently discovered the Higgs Boson particle or “God Particle”.

Scientists are practically leaping with joy as this discovery might lead to applications in the quantum computing field.

The researchers achieved this amazing observation by placing a thin, long chain of magnetic iron atoms that were pure on a superconductor constructed from lead. Cooling the materials to -457 degrees Fahrenheit and looked the the results via a 20ft tall scanning tunneling microscope. Suddenly, bingo, the researchers discovered an electrically neutral signal found at the ends of the wires made of iron. This observation the “key signature” that led them to determine they had found that elusive Majorana Fermion once and for all.

Again, the application for quantum computing means that now the engineers can make a quantum bit, the first stage in making a quantum computer.

For over 70 years this particle had been sought after. Theorized and debated. Some other scientists caution that its too early to make all the claims that the research teams are making and that further testing and observation be done to make the discover conclusive. If all pans out and quantum computing becomes feasible, the entire world will be looking at a new age of computing the likes of which only science fiction writers could come up with.

This discovery indeed must have further research before a practical application can be done and it may be several years before anything hits the store shelves but then again there’s no telling. In today’s computing and commerce driven society the competition is so fierce that even with agreed upon regulation there will be those who will breach it for monetary gain.

Mr. Majorana’s theory is now reality. The second groundbreaking particle physics change since the Higgs Boson discovery of a few years ago.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: anti particle, discovery, particle, particle and anti particle, scientist

Scientists Create World’s First Automatic Rechargeable Solar Battery

October 3, 2014 By Marlene R. Litten

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Ohio State University scientists invented the world’s first rechargeable battery with its own solar cell solar battery, which is the newest improvement in the world of transferable power supplies, the scientists have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid apparatus, which could be massive in terms of renewable energy capture and storage.

This latest solar battery could create it more reasonable for homeowners and businesses to use solar energy fairly than less sustainable sources of power. Yiying Wu, a professor at Ohio State and one of the inventors of the solar battery, said that the gadget could cut down costs by 25 percent and if solar power becomes less costly to execute, this could make a lot of inroads for more extensive use of renewable energy.

The major factor of the latest device is a mesh solar panel, which permits air to come into the battery and there’s also a unique method for transferring electrons between the solar panel and the battery electrode; within the device, light and oxygen allow different parts of the chemical reactions that charge the battery.

The brilliant inventor said that fundamentally, it’s a breathing battery, it breathes in the air when it discharges, and breathes out when it charges.

The inventor further said that the mesh solar panel forms the initial electrode and under the mesh is a slim sheet of porous carbon, which works as the second electrode, and a lithium plate, which works as the third electrode. Between the electrodes are sheets of electrolyte to hold electrons back and forth and during charging, light strikes the mesh solar panel and generates electrons.

Then, within the battery, electrons are engaged in the chemical breakdown of lithium peroxide into lithium ions and oxygen and finally the oxygen is released into the air, and the lithium ions are accumulated in the battery as lithium metal after capturing the electrons.

The discoveries could be massive in terms of creating long-lasting energy for powering a mixture of devices that’s why the researchers are continuing to move forward in improving the effectiveness of the battery and the amount of power the panel can absorb and transferred.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: battery, rechargeable, rechargeable solar battery, scientist, solar, solar battery

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