WHEN I WALK OUT OF THE GYM AFTER LEG DAY
WHEN GIRLS TELL ME THAT I’LL GET TOO BULKY IF I LIFT WEIGHTS
PLEASE TELL ME HOW THAT CUPCAKE MAKES YOU SKINNY
“16-Year-Old Egyptian Scientist Finds Way to Turn Plastic Waste Into $78 Million of Biofuel!”
What Azza proposes is to break down the plastic polymers found in drinks bottles and general waste and turn them into biofuel feedstock. (This is the bulk raw material that generally used for producing biofuel.) It should be noted that this is not a particularly new idea, but what makes Azza stand out from the crowd is the catalyst that she is proposing. She says that she has found a high-yield catalyst called aluminosilicate, that will break down plastic waste and also produce gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol.
The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say ‘It cannot be done’.
A ‘Fifth Force’ May Alter Gravity at Cosmic Scales
Radical new research is attempting to characterize the properties of a fifth force that disrupts the predictions general relativity makes outside our own galaxy, on cosmic-length scales. University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain, says the nature of gravity is the question of a lifetime. As scientists have been able to see farther and deeper into the universe, the laws of gravity have been revealed to be under the influence of an unexplained force.
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Pear-shaped nucleus boosts search for new physics
A lopsided atomic nucleus may help to refine nuclear theory. The stubby pear shape, described today in Nature, may also be pointing towards new tests of particle physics that could reveal why matter became more common than antimatter in the early moments of the Universe.
Why Would Aliens Obliterate Our Moon?
Why do we keep taking pot shots at the moon?
This started when pioneer special effects filmmaker Georges Melies poked the Man in The Moon in the eye with a Jules Vern rocket in his fanciful 1902 classic, Le Voyage Dans la Lune. Then, in 1916, rocket pioneer Robert Goddard proposed sending a rocket to the moon loaded with 15 pounds of photographic flash powder in order to record the explosion made by the impact. This was revisited in the late 1950s when the U.S. military considered the possibly of exploding a nuclear bomb on the moon just to show off to our Space Race adversaries, the Soviets.
