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Biology Jobs .com - Biology Life Science Careers Site. Postdoctoral Postdoc Biotech Science Jobs . Welcome to SRG - Science Recruitment NewScientist The Last Word - Index page Bathed in heat I had a hot bath one evening and decided not to let all the heat go to waste. So I left the plug in until the water had given up all of its heat to the house. But when is the best time to pull the plug out? Should I wait until the water is the same temperature as the ambient indoors air, or should I keep the extra thermal mass in the bathtub, and then pull the plug when the temperature outside the house is at its lowest?
SHP Online IT graduate jobs, internships and careers advice targetjobs.co.uk Home » Career sectors » IT and technology graduate jobs, internships and expert careers advice IT and technology graduate jobs, internships and expert careers advice Search for graduate jobs, training schemes and placements Or choose: IT and technology schemes | IT and technology internships Bacteria may communicate through nanowires Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, possibly communicating and sharing energy. “This is the first measurement of electron transport along biological nanowires produced by bacteria,” said Mohamed El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California. He says that the discovery could help find ways to destroy harmful colonies, such as biofilms, and also help with the development of bacterial fuel cells. “The flow of electrons in various directions is intimately tied to the metabolic status of different parts of the biofilm,” El-Naggar said. “Bacterial nanowires can provide the necessary links for the survival of a microbial circuit.”
Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough Antihydrogen atoms were trapped in a magnetic fieldMatter and antimatter annihilate each other on contact"It's taken us five years to get here," says Professor Jeffrey HangstCERN's next ambition is to create a beam of antimatter (CNN) -- Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe. Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap. This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter. Understanding antimatter is one of the biggest challenges facing science -- most theoretical physicists and cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and antimatter were produced in equal amounts. However, as our world is made up of matter, antimatter seems to have disappeared.
Instant Zombie – Just Add Salt. Those of you who follow me on Google+, facebook or twitter might have seen this neat little video: Yeah, it freaked me out, too. But this little cephalopod isn’t actually alive – he’s just very freshly dead. A similar phenomenon can be seen in these frog legs: Newest Canary Island pictured rising from the deep Chelsea Whyte, contributor The recent earthquakes in the Canary Islands of late aren't due to Poseidon the earth-shaker, but a submarine volcano to the south of the island of El Hierro. Hot magma spewing from beneath the surface of the ocean has injected volcanic chemicals into the water, staining the sea green. Ocean waters have been churning with heat and seafloor sediment spewed from the volcano's plume, which stretches tens of kilometres under water. The eruption of magma is venting 50 to 100 meters below the surface, but catapulting volcanic rocks as high as 19 meters in the air. The volcanic activity is warming the waters by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, reports Red Orbit.
Engineers patch a heart: Tissue-engineering platform enables heart tissue to repair itself Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in combating cardiovascular disease, one of the most serious health problems of our day. Led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the researchers developed a novel cell therapy to treat myocardial infarction (heart damage that follows a heart attack). DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive When it comes to storing information, hard drives don't hold a candle to DNA. Our genetic code packs billions of gigabytes into a single gram. A mere milligram of the molecule could encode the complete text of every book in the Library of Congress and have plenty of room to spare. All of this has been mostly theoretical—until now. In a new study, researchers stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA—one trillionth of a gram—an advance that could revolutionize our ability to save data. A few teams have tried to write data into the genomes of living cells.