good for? 지진이 주는 유익? Although earthquakes can cause major disasters, they also represent the most useful opportunity to peer inside the Earth. Recently, a research team from Princeton University (USA) and the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a 3D map representing the Earth’s interior 2800 kilometers underground. As variations in the speed of the ...
of fluid mechanics, and brewed alcohol without organic chemistry or biochemistry. On the other hand, relatively less useful scientific fields including astronomy, mechanics, and optics had been developed until the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. Like this, science was not applicable to technology and could not give solutions to technological problems. Here, I will examine the ...
industries, latent scientific theories were sought after, meaning that any scientific discovery that could be deemed useful was given a light by the big businesses. … (중략) … This phenomena or so-called confluence in the given topic becomes so intensified that ‘the distinction’ no longer holds meaningfulness. This is exactly how science and technology co-operate each other; … ...
Dr. Fenton suggests. “Negative memory erasing not only could help people forget painful experiences, but might be useful in treating depression, general anxiety, phobias, post-traumatic stress, and various addictions,” he adds. Also Dr. Sacktor emphasized that the importance of this research is that “it showed that PKMzeta is the fundamental matter for storing many different forms of ...
recently, Harvard Medical School researchers have confirmed the ancient Chinese finding that Kudzu root extract is useful for helping alcoholics stop drinking.Kudzu is good eating for humans, too. The roots are cooked as a vegetable or for tea, and ground up to make flour for noodles.Right now the kudzu flour eaten in the United States come from Japan, and is not cheap.Every "noxious weed" ...
has been instructive news about wild rodents. Both wild and tame members of the order Rodentia are interesting and useful.But rodents can also be dangerous. Throughout history, humankind has suffered greatly from diseases carried by rodents or by the insects that live on them. It's estimated that in the 14th century, 75 percent of the population of Asia and Europe died of plague, a disease ...
would cut out more sunlight, cooling the Earth still more. The ice age would increase.Volcanoes, even undersea, can be useful. They bring to the surface not only deadly gas, ash and fire, but also deposits of minerals like gold, sulfur and copper.Perhaps some day we will be able to manage and use volcanoes better. What is certain is that we can't cope with volcanoes by throwing virgins into ...
the bark of Pacific yew trees. Taxol is fiercely expensive and very hard to get, for yew trees are few.Since taxol is useful for other tumors as well, the demand has far exceeded the supply. Even thorough testing has been difficult. But if the latest research proves profitable, taxol will now be adequately investigated and there will be enough of it for all the people who need it. Taxol has ...
this to preserve the integrity of containers for nuclear waste products.Efforts are now being made convert waste into useful energy or products. Waste Conversion Systems Inc., in Englewood, Colo., has patented a 'biomass' burner that not only disposes of old tires, newspapers, and the like, but it turns them into an alternative fuel source. The burner operates at high temperatures(1,800 to 2, ...
blue animal with white underparts. The Australians found compounds with antibacterial and antiviral properties, very useful to humans and certain to be given thorough pharmacological investigation.These are only a few of the astonishing results from studying amphibians. Perhaps we should try harder to protect those that remain on Earth.And what about those amphibians that vanished long before ...