Economic times are tough and money is tight for everyone. Not only that, but pollution and global warming are slowly changing the weather patterns and climates of our world. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do your part for the planet and cut back on your bills at the same time? Well, you can! … learn more→
Author Archives: Nick Ryall
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Cooking the energy efficient way
Weighing the benefits and disadvantages of homeschooling vs. traditional education
When considering the options for educating their children, parents have few choices. They can opt to send their child to public schools, which are operated with federal and state money and thus teach federal and state-approved curricula; private schools, which are privately owned and have varying standards for teachers, curricula, etc.; or they can choose … learn more→
Grassfed relevance
Cows cannot digest grain properly. Those who support the grainfed method will no doubt come out of their chairs at the reading of such a statement, given the “graining” of cows is such a mainstay. The statement is nothing personal, but it is a fact. This was the reason why we started with grassfed cows. … learn more→
Better sight with natural light
Since the invention of the light bulb in the late 1800s, the use of artificial light has swept the globe as a ‘must have’ in every home and office, largely due to the option for increased productivity. However, the result of having these luxuries so readily available has dimmed our desire to use natural light … learn more→
MIT researchers transform dancer Roberto Bolle into a cloud of pixels
Body scanning, motion capture, and 3-D software generate dancing avatar … learn more→
New calculations on blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy
A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today* that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. Although small, the correction could represent a big step towards atomic timekeepers’ longstanding goal of a clock with a precision equivalent to one … learn more→
Fundamental question on how life started solved
German and US researchers calculate a carbon nucleus of crucial importance … learn more→
New way of turning sun’s heat into electricity
MIT researchers and their collaborators have come up with an unusual, high performance and possibly less expensive way of turning the sun’s heat into electricity. Their system, described in a paper published online in the journal Nature Materials on May 1, produces power with an efficiency roughly eight times higher than ever previously reported for … learn more→
New software to support interest in extreme science
The University of Chicago’s Flash Center for Computational Science released a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha, on April 29. Based on previous software for simulating exploding stars, this is the first version of the FLASH code that has extensive capabilities for simulating high-energy density physics experiments. The U.S. Department of Energy’s … learn more→
MIT researchers use virus to improve solar-cell efficiency
MIT researchers use genetically modified virus to produce structures that improve solar-cell efficiency by nearly one-third. … learn more→
