Jackson cause of death – secrets revealed

How did Michael Jackson die? Did he kill himself? physician’s mistake? or someone intended to kill him? watch what Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the results of the coroner’s report in Michael Jackson’s death and the drugs that killed him.

A new way to speed up biofuel production

Researchers around the world are racing to find new ways to replace the gasoline in automobiles. Gasoline is getting more expensive and its not environment friendly. So, researchers at Ohio State University have found a new method to double the production of biofuel butanol, and they are hoping that it soon will replace gasoline in automobiles.

bacteria could only produce a certain amount of butanol — perhaps 15 grams of the chemical for every liter of water in the tank — before the tank would become too toxic for the bacteria to survive, explained Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State.

Yang and his colleagues developed a mutant strain of the bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of polyester fibers. In that environment, the mutant bacteria produced up to 30 grams of butanol per liter.

Right now, butanol is mainly used as a solvent, or in industrial processes that make other chemicals. But experts believe that this form of alcohol holds potential as a biofuel.

Once developed as a fuel, butanol could potentially be used in conventional automobiles in place of gasoline, while producing more energy than another alternative fuel, ethanol.

Yang said that this use of his patented fibrous-bed bioreactor would ultimately save money.

“Today, the recovery and purification of butanol account for about 40 percent of the total production cost,” explained Yang, “Because we are able to create butanol at higher concentrations, we believe we can lower those recovery and purification costs and make biofuel production more economical.”

Currently, a gallon of butanol costs approximately $3.00 — a little more than the current price for a gallon of gasoline.

The engineers are applying for a patent on the mutant bacterium and the butanol production methodology, and will work with industry to develop the technology.

Full post credit – Newswise.com

Arthritis Knee Pain Simple Solution

Millions of women around the world suffer from Arthritis knee pain, which prevent them sometimes from doing normal daily activities like climbing the stairs or even walking. But a new research conducted by the University of Iowa finds that women who have strong thigh muscles are 50% less likely to develop knee pain compared to women who have weak muscles.

So, what you need to do is to adapt to a regular exercise to strengthen your quadriceps muscles because they help protect against cartilage loss behind the kneecap and also provide crucial support for the joint.

Building some muscles around and above the knee would be very beneficial for women ( the study didn’t find the same results in men) especially if they follow a good exercise habit that target specifically the muscles in the leg.

Here are some video resource along with some links to websites where professionals explain to you how to go about strengthening quadriceps.

How to Strengthen Quadriceps:

How to Strengthen Thigh Muscles:

10 Training that strengthen your muscles – U.S News

The First Image of A Single Molecule

IBM researchers took the first ever images of a single molecule using an atomic force microscope (AFM), which revealed the chemical bond within a molecule. As you can see in the image below, the rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.

This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,’ lead researcher Leo Gross said.

Also, the space between each hexagonal shape (carbon rings) is 0.14 nanometers across, which is roughly one million times smaller than the diameter of a grain of sand.

The new discovery would open the door wide open in the field of nanotechnology to study the tiniest and smallest things known to mankind.

Source – Dailymail.co.uk

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