Earlier last month, the Journal of Experimental Biology published a study about fingerprints and that there is new doubt that fingerprints increase friction, which supposedly facilitates the grip by our hands. Now, they are saying that fingerprints actually reduce the amount of friction between the skin and other surfaces. This is probably contrary to everyone’s intuition. [...]
A few days ago (this past Tuesday), Boeing had to once again delay the maiden flight of the much-anticipated Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It is no surprise that it has harmed the company’s public image stock price as well as had damaging effects on deals with Qantas and Virgin, for example. According to the Wall Street Journal: [...]
An interesting article from ScienceDaily reports that techniques being researched for an upcoming European mission to Mars could be directly applied to help address the energy crisis here on Earth. Basically, the process of separating organic material from space rock could be applied to purifying the large quantities of water required to refine unconventional fossil [...]
Back in February, I had written a post about the differences between science and engineering, titled “Science Isn’t Engineering; Engineering Isn’t Science.” This morning, I came across a very interesting blog by a guy named Eric Drexler, who writes about science and technology at Metamodern.com. He elaborates more on the topic that I had superficially [...]
Earlier last month, President Obama has annoucned the official White House National Fuel Efficiency Policy. The new standards, covering model years 2012-2016, and ultimately requiring an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 mpg in 2016, are projected to save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program with a fuel economy gain [...]