Metal casting processes: What is permanent mould casting?
By: Susan Kristoff
Permanent mold casting is a process of fabricating a cast part using a mold that can be reused multiple times, as opposed to processes such as lost wax and lost foam sand casting. The molds used in permanent mold casting are generally made from cast...
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The most important scientific discoveries of the past 10 years
By: MasterFil
The study of stem cells and their potential, as well as the development of techniques that allow their manipulation and application in health, is one of the latest and most promising discoveries of the science to cure a lot of diseases of the modern society...
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The most important scientific discoveries of the past 10 years
By: Helena Whyte
There have been a lot of publications and video productions about Global Warming and the melting of the Arctic Ice Cap in the last several years. Al Gore and his co-researchers even received a Nobel Prize for their work on climate change, but even though...
Metal working processes: What is metal rolling?
By: Ct Yankee
What is Metal Rolling? Metal rolling or more commonly "rolling" is the process of shaping metal by passing it through "rollers" or "rolls" held at a controlled distance or separation. Rolling is an efficient process, and in terms of tonnage is the dominant method of...
Winning arguments against the metric system
By: Kaz Vorpal
The only impediment to arguing against the metric system is the programming that people receive in the public education system.Actual logic is on the side of the advocate of imperial/US units of measure:The metric system is generally touted as being easy to convert, from...
By: Lawrence George
UFOs exist, in the sense that there are frequently objects seen in the sky that cannot be identified. But are there spacecraft from other worlds in the skies over New Mexico, or anywhere else? No. And it pains me to say that because I've always...
Using science as a rational foundation for personal belief systems
By: Kenneth Smith
The title, 'Using Science...' already has a bias, in that 'using' is a tool of action to achieve something. In this instance presumably you want to push a belief system. If the system is already scientific - and most science is a belief system...
Scientists find table salt multiplies hard disk space six times
By: Terrence Aym
After several decades spent working with exotic materials in an effort to boost hard disk space, Chinese scientists in Singapore made a jaw-dropping discovery: common table salt can multiply hard disk space up to six times.Common sodium chloride to the rescueAs demand for computing...
An inventor's guide to registering a patent
By: Sandra Piddock
Have you just come up with a brilliant idea that nobody else has ever thought of? It may be something simple or something that will make headline news around the world, but if you're the first to come up with it, you may need to...
By: Evelyn Berger
When working around radon, you may worry about the safe limits of gas exposure. It’s certainly something to be concerned about, and something that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Radon-222 is carcinogenic to humans, and as it can be inhaled, that makes it a...
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