Discovery

Driving at night is not as easy as driving at day light. People tends to feel sleepy, and this is one of the cause of accidents in the highway. Seeing this, the giant car maker–Toyota–are now developing a system to rouse drivers before they quite literally drift off completely. It works as a warning system by [...]

I was always thinking that women can control their hunger better than men. Well, I have many friends–boys–who can not do something before they eat something. While women, we can control our hunger, and stay doing something till finish before get meals. It is rare to see a woman eats 5 times a day, but it [...]

After researchers at the University of Illinois found the silicon photonic crystals as the key to optical cloaking in June, 2008, engineers at Duke University recently has produced a new type of cloaking device, which is significantly more sophisticated at cloaking in a broad range of frequencies. ScienceDaily reported, the engineers develop some technique using mathematical [...]

Calcium, the most abundant mineral in the human body, has several important functions. More than 99% of total body calcium is stored in the bones and teeth where it functions to support their structure. What about Calcium in plants? We know that plants need sixteen chemical elements that are essential for its growth and survival, [...]

You know, when I saw someone who have problem with their weight, OK lets say : obesity, I thought that it was all about habit. Bad eating habit, less exercise. I never think that gene also has a signifficant impact to the obesity. A research by an international team of scientists with German participation through [...]

In the previous research held by Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, the induced alignment of membrane proteins has been used for NMR structure determination. Yet recently, Arizona State University researchers reveal for the first time the three-dimensional character of [...]