News tagged with centrifugal force

Space Image: Fastest rotating star found in neighboring galaxy

This artist's concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

TACC supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into structure and behavior of protein, DNA and RNA

In 1926, Theodor Svedberg won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a novel method of separating proteins based on experiments performed on a new device he invented: the analytic ultracentrifuge.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New study shows how to eliminate motion sickness on tilting trains

An international team of researchers led by scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that motion sickness on tilting trains can be essentially eliminated by adjusting the timing of when the cars tilt as they ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Vertiwind: Floating wind turbine project launched

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technip, a French-based oil and gas engineering company, and Nenuphar, a wind-power startup, announced that they will soon launch Vertiwind, a newly designed wind turbine.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Galileo revisited: How ribbons roll

Galileo Galilei’s experiments on the motions of falling and rolling objects, described in his 1638 book, “Two New Sciences,” are considered by many to be the beginning of modern science. Now researchers at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Single-molecule manipulation for the masses

Scientists have developed a new massively-parallel approach for manipulating single DNA and protein molecules and studying their interactions under force. The finding appears in the June 2 issue of Biophysical Jo ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast