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First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Canon EOS 400D

Image of the Week: Surface Tension Creates Bouncing Water

This is an image of a water droplet bouncing. It was caused by surface tension. Surface tension is a contractive tendency of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force.It is revealed, for example, in the floating of some objects ... [Published Laboratory Equipment - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Surface Tension, Canon EOS 400D, Focal Length, Tamron

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Two vital resources: Water and natural gas

Jun. 6, 2013 Elisabeth EitelComments 0Global energy demand outpaces supply, so within the next decade, Americans can expect gasoline shortages, blackouts, and the general instability of an energy crisis. This inevitable development will trump the status ... [Published Machine Design - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Propane, John Hofmeister, Surface Tension, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Teknion wins big at Best of NeoCon 2013 Awards

Teknion Corporation recently announced that four of its new products on display in its expanded and redesigned Merchandise Mart showroom were honoured with prestigious Best of NeoCon Awards at NeoCon 2013 which took place from June 10-12, 2013 in Chicago. ... [Published Canadian Architect - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Neo-Conservative, Surface Tension, Silver, Tick

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Shenzhou-10 to Dock With Tiangong-1

The Shenzhou-10 spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the Tiangong-1, a target orbiter and space module sent to space in 2011, around noon on Thursday.In coming days, the Shenzhou-10 crew will conduct two space dockings with the unmanned Tiangong-1 space ... [Published Beijing Review - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Surface Tension, Liquidation, Interaction

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Surface Tension and Load-Carrying Capacities of Solder

Reflow soldering on both sides of a board is standard procedure in the SMT manufacturing process. When the second component side is soldered, the components hang upside-down on the PCB. When the reflow process reaches its peak range, the possibility of ... [Published Ems 007 - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Solder, Surface Tension, Standard Operating Procedure

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Polyampholyte/Surfactant Complexes at the Water–Air Interface: A Surface Tension Study

The present paper is related to interactions between strongly alternating polyampholytes, i.e., copolymers of N,N′-diallyl-N,N′-dimethylammonium chloride and maleamic acid derivatives, varying in hydrophobicity and excess charges and the oppositely charged ... [Published Langmuir - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Surfactants, Surface Tension, Carboxylic Acid

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Kinetics and Control of Self-Assembly of ABH1 Hydrophobin from the Edible White Button Mushroom

Hydrophobins are small fungal proteins that self-assemble at hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces to form stable, amyloid membranes that are resistant to denaturation. Their remarkable surface activity has driven intense research for their potential utility ... [Published Biomacromolecules - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Agaricus Bisporus, Interfacial Tension, Surface Tension, Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Solid surface tension by membrane deformation [Engineering]

We show that a drop of liquid a few hundred microns in diameter placed under a solid, elastic, thin film (∼10 μm thick) causes it to bulge by tens of microns. The deformed shape is governed by equilibrium of tensions exerted by the various interfaces ... [Published PNAS - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Surface Tension, Membrane, thin-film

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 2 reports

Bill Nye: 'When Rush Limbaugh Says I'm Not a Scientist, I'm Charmed'

Bill Nye the Science Guy is firing back at conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who last week on his show proclaimed Nye is nothing more than a talking head on television."Bill Nye is not a science guy; that's why he's a TV personality," Limbaugh ... [Published Mashable - May 31 2013]

Entities: Bill Nye, Rush Limbaugh, Carmen Electra, Surface Tension, Kickstarter

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 2 reports

Clever Mug Catches Coffee Drips Before They Become Stains

Harnessing the complex hydrodynamic properties of surface tension, this brilliantly re-engineered mug features a strategically engineered reservoir running around the circumference of the vessel?s outer wall. Or, in other words, designer Kim Keun Ae added ... [Published Gizmodo Australia - May 29 2013]

Entities: Coffee, Surface Tension, Invention

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Surface tension as world No.1 refuses to discuss the draw

Beaten in the final by Rafael Nadal last year, Djokovic was drawn in the same half as the seven-times champion and promptly refused to talk about the prospect of playing the Spaniard in the semi-finals, or anyone else, for that matter ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 25 2013]

Entities: Surface Tension, Rafael Nadal

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 5 reports

New smart fabric mimics the way skin perspires

Biomedical engineers say their textile microfluidic platform is water repellent and scalable.Researchers turned to the human skin for inspiration behind new moisture-wicking fabric.(Credit: Vox Efx/Flickr)Biomedical engineers are unveiling a new type ... [Published CNET News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Surface Tension, University of California Davis, National Science Foundation, Manufacturing Process, Substrate

Quotes

...Choice B is the correct choice. Chicago Wine School's Website says, "Wine's body or viscosity can be determined, often, by the way rivulets (or sheets, or "tears") of wine descend the inner glass after swirling. It has to deal with the surface tension and other technical stuff; but a look at the legs will give you tips on the wine's nature: In a dry wine, slow falling legs indicate a full-bodied-wine; quick-falling indicate a light wine." Answer to question 2: When you declare your beverage as full bodied, you are describing your impression of weight on your palate...

Vocability [Published Individual.com - Jun 15 2013]

...Yes. But tea cosies are celebrated. Even a contemporary comedian like Billy Connolly says, "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on That thought makes me smile too and remember how, as a child I'd watch my parents drink their tea on a winter morning, wait for the last cup to be poured and promptly don the hat-that-warms-the-ears."

Trivial pursuits for serious people [Published The Hindu - Jun 15 2013]

...And in the early days, certainly it was "let's see if we can beat the CG guys at their own game." Michael Lynch, one of the modelmakers--he was always really good at looking at things this way--he was looking at the crowds...

ILM Modelmakers Share Star Wars Stories and Secrets [Published Tested - Jun 14 2013]

"At this very moment, I am sharing the same feeling with everyone" he said. "I am very happy and excited."

China's space dream on course after launch [Published Asia News Network - Jun 13 2013]

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Teknion wins big at Best of NeoCon 2013 Awards [Published Canadian Architect - Jun 14 2013]
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China's space dream on course after launch [Published Asia News Network - Jun 13 2013]
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Dow Corning® US-CF 2403 Resin Improves Physical... [Published Dow Corning - Jun 12 2013]
Achiever's now a motivator [Published Bangkok Post - Jun 11 2013]

Blogs

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Liquidsafe brings European nano technology to SA [Published Bandwidth Blog - Jun 13 2013] Cape Town based Liquidsafe has recently been awarded the exclusive license in South Africa to supply the latest nano technology. Originally developed in Europe the technology, that was the product of over 16 years of research and development, protects mobile ...
Richard Feynman: Fun To Imagine [Published The Reference Frame - Jun 02 2013] You must have seen many excerpts from the following video featuring Richard Feynman:But maybe you have never watched the whole 66-minute-long video. Here it's waiting for you.He covers lots of things – need for imagination in physics; heat is wiggling; ...
Bill Nye: 'When Rush Limbaugh Says I'm Not a Sc... [Published Mashable! - May 31 2013] Bill Nye the Science Guy is firing back at conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who last week on his show proclaimed Nye is nothing more than a talking head on television. "Bill Nye is not a science guy; that's why he's a TV personality," ...
Methane hurricanes approaching with summer on T... [Published Wired: Beyond the Beyond - May 22 2013] Really? Well, maybe. News feature: 2013-170 May 22, 2013 Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be Ahead The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-170&cid=release_2013-170 ...
PhysX PBF: breakthrough in simulation of water [Published The Reference Frame - Apr 29 2013] A decade ago, the state-of-the-art computer simulation of moving water looked like the 0:20-0:40 segment of the Mafia I trailer . In the following years, the progress was relatively modest up to very recently.PC games have become nearly photorealistic ...