Posts by Ibrar Ayyub:
Polling station environments matter: Physical layout can impact the voting experience
Posted on: 10 Nov 2015
A presentation by human factors/ergonomics researchers at the HFES 2015 International Annual Meeting in Los Angeles in October explained how a voter’s positive or negative experience with a particular voting system is influenced not only by perceptions of trust and aesthetics but also by the polling environment itself.
Breakthrough in superconducting materials opens new path to fusion
Posted on: 10 Nov 2015
In fusion reactor designs, superconductors (which suffer no resistive power loss) are used to generate the magnetic fields that confine the 100 million degree C plasma. While increasing magnetic field strength offers potential ways to improve reactor performance, conventional low-temperature superconductors suffer dramatic drops in current carrying ability at high magnetic fields.
Scientists use supercomputer to model plasma turbulence, and solve a 50-year-old mystery
Posted on: 10 Nov 2015
For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use “magnetic bottles” of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of producing practical fusion energy. But turbulence in the plasma has, so far, confounded researchers’ ability to efficiently contain the intense heat within the core of the fusion device, reducing performance
A new explanation for the explosive nature of magnetic reconnection
Posted on: 10 Nov 2015
Magnetic reconnection, which occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy, gives rise to many beautiful and powerful phenomena in the natural world. These include solar flares, the Northern Lights, and geomagnetic storms that can disrupt cell-phone service or knock out power grids.
2016 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics goes to five neutrino experiments
Posted on: 09 Nov 2015
At a gala ceremony held in Silicon Valley on November 8, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), the Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND), and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (Daya Bay) were among five neutrino experiments awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. All three were made possible by essential contributions from scientists and engineers at the U.S
Study challenges prevailing view on how metal organic frameworks store gases
Posted on: 09 Nov 2015
An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a renowned chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed “gas adsorption crystallography” that provides a new way to study the process by which metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas – are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane. This new look at MOFs led to a discovery that holds promise for the improved design of MOFs tailored specifically for carbon capture, or for the use of hydrogen and natural gas (methane) fuels.
Interfacing GY 26 with atmega640
Posted on: 07 Nov 2015
Hello friend once again with new instructable in this I will show you how to interface GY 26 with UART when I started working on this very less resource where availble over internet .Thus i thought to share my piece of work .GY 26 is a digital compass which gives angle with respect to earth […]
New Horizons completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers
Posted on: 06 Nov 2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69. This ancient body in the Kuiper Belt is more than a billion miles beyond Pluto; New Horizons will explore it if NASA approves an extended mission.
Tsunami early warning: JRC tests new low-cost device to measure sea level
Posted on: 06 Nov 2015
A new, low-cost experimental device for sea level measurement has been developed by JRC scientists. The first four devices have been installed in Spain and Portugal, in collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
Posted on: 06 Nov 2015
The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, using tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, and parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 years.
