Laboratory Equipment: Exact Results
June 5, 2008
Laboratories can be found worldwide, providing a safe environment to test, measure, discover, and subsequently expand man’s body of knowledge and improve life on this planet. There are laboratories in high schools, universities, and industrial settings; there are laboratories for government and military research; there are laboratories on the sea, under the sea, and in space. Important medical research is accomplished in laboratories, as well as research to achieve glowing hair coloring products. No... Read more »
Great Laboratory Supplies Yield Dependable Results
June 3, 2008
If you are part of a laboratory team, whether industrial, medical, educational, or in any other field, you are part of the proud history of chemistry. While many consider the history of their work really beginning with the chemistry revolution in the 1700s, that is actually erroneous. Chemistry has been improving life for humans in one way or another for an incredible 10,000 years! Amusingly, one of the first chemical processes understood by humans was fermentation, a biochemical process in which... Read more »
How Much Viable Is Bio Fuel
June 3, 2008
Amid the much hype being created about this alternative fuel, sceptics are asking if it will be promoted at the cost of edible oils. For many years now, many environmentalists and energy experts have been projecting bio-fuel as an ideal solution for the energy crunch and environmental pollution bedeviling the overcrowded and overheated planet Earth. Further, it has been considered a sound option to beat the relentless surge in global crude oil prices. Indeed, with the crude prices hovering around... Read more »
Cold Case - Phoenix And The Outlook For Life On Mars
May 30, 2008
The Phoenix Mars Polar Lander is slated to land on Mars’ north pole on May 25th - very soon now! Phoenix is intended to look for signs of microbial life, and there’s a case that evidence may be found on Mars. The first piece of evidence is purported microfossils found in an Antarctic meteorite in 1997 - this Shergottic meteorite ALH84001, estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, is still the subject of some controversy. There are some who say that the micro structures are evidence of... Read more »
How Conductivity Meters Have Revolutionised The Agricultural Industry
May 25, 2008
In agriculture and science, electrical conductivity (EC) is an excellent way to measure water, soils and fertilisers using a handheld meter or desktop device. Fundamentally, it is possible for them to do this by measuring the dissolved salts in solutions and hence the salt content of soil or water; more salt will mean a higher conductivity of the solution. Usually a high conductivity reading from your meter will mean that your plants will be suffering. In some cases a high salinity will result in... Read more »
Alternative Fuel Sources Could Be the Future of Energy
May 24, 2008
Alternative fuel sources should be one of the most important focuses that we as responsible human beings strive to develop so that we leave this world a better place than we got it from our ancestors. There is an ardent need for saving the environment that is being polluted by emissions given out by the extensive use of gasoline and/or petrol for energy. This article will focus on the various alternative fuel sources currently available. Conventional fuel sources are getting a lot harder to extract,... Read more »
Why Now Is Important For Astronomy
May 24, 2008
We are at a critical juncture in solar system exploration. On the drawing boards are dozens of promising ideas, many which could be realized in the coming decades. There is plenty of incentive for human expansion into the solar system, yet there is no long-term commitment and no consensus on how or when it will occur. This past May, at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) held in Baltimore, Maryland, a panel addressed these issues.... Read more »
Face Lift Machines: Electric Cosmetic Treatments
May 23, 2008
A face lift, or rhytidectomy if you want to impress your friends, is a medical procedure that will slash your face along the hairline to your ears, ironically, to make you look better. Still, the seemingly gruesome details have not scared away folks from undergoing the potentially disastrous procedure. Just imagine how this cosmetic surgery was like when the first face lift was done in 1901. Still, despite the tremendous advances in modern technology, it still takes a few months before you see the... Read more »
What Would The World Be Without Titration?
May 22, 2008
Titration is a laboratory method concerned with chemical analysis, it is also know as a method used in medicine of reducing a patient’s dose until healing has occurred. In chemistry it is fundamentally used to find the concentration of reactants in solutions. As titration is heavily reliant on the measurement of volume it has also been termed volumetric analysis. The process involves adding an agent of known concentration called the titrant and using it to react with a solution in which there... Read more »
Tips For Examing The Earth’s Moon With Binoculars
May 22, 2008
Our moon is 2,000 miles wide and is very close to us, allowing us to see all of its tiny details with just a pair of binoculars. Binoculars would reveal the chaotic landscape of the moon that is fulled with mountains, dark deep valleys, and large craters. As the month goes on, the moon is seen as 4 different cycles. It starts as new, to a crescent, to half of a moon, to a football shape, and then to a full moon. After that, it goes backwards from football, to half moon, to crescent, to new. You... Read more »
