Intel Plans Faster Chips That Also Save Power

This article is about how Intel has made two new processors that will run with a 45 nanometer thickness in it's wires. They are currently trying to design chips like these that are more power efficient, and do not give off much heat. Power efficiency and heat are related to one another in that the more heat something gives off, the less power efficient it is.
This article is related to electricity in that it discusses how it can be very hard to design computer chips that process faster, but still do not over heat. The perfect processor would be made with superconductors, but would not be plausable because they would have to be kept at a temperature that is way too cold.
This can be loosely related to magnetism because all electric current creates a magnetic field. I also wonder if the current in these processors can cause a magnetic field that would effect other processes of the processor or computer. Although I do not think that it is likely.

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Data Show How Electronics Mix With Medical Devices

This article by Nicholas Bakalar gives details on how electronic devices may effect the performance of medical devices. It goes into detail about some cases that were experimented with, like a cell phone ringing next to some medical equiptment or a heart pacemaker stopping because of antitheft devices at a large retail store. The research on this has been very limited because cases where medical equiptment has failed because of electronic interaction is very rare and hard to prove.
I think that this can be related to magnetism because when electric current is put through a wire, a magnetic field is created. The magnetic field of one electrical device may effect another device and cause it to malfunction. We all know what happens when you put a magnet next to a laptop, even though I've never seen someone crazy enough to do it. So two electronical devices may interfear with each other if one is generating a large enough magnetic field through the current in it's circuit boards to effect the other electronical device.

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Climate Panel Issues

The article "Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning," by Elisabeth Rosenthal, and Andrew C. Revkin, is about how a intergovermental panel on climate exchange has found out that there is a 90% certainty that global warming is in part due to humankind. The article basically discusses how global warming will effect us in the future.
I think this article is related to physics because it deals with molecules and their properties and how they effect other molecules in the atmosphere. Manmade molecules do not occur naturally, and when we make them, it causes unnatural reactions in the air that shouldn't normally occur at the rate they do.
I think global warming is important to know about, and people should realize that it is an important issue that effects everyone.

Pair of Satellites Will Document Sun in 3-D

I chose this article because it was obviously easy to relate to physics. It appears that a group of scientists is going to send two satellites around the sun and each of them is going to act like a human eye. The effect of having these two satellites reading the sun at the same time is going to give us a 3-D view, just like how human eyes can see depth.
The satellites are going to track a path that is close to the Earths and the satellites will eventually end up on opposite sides of the sun.
Without our understanding of physics as it is today, something like this could not even be possible. Not only do you need the physics in understanding the launching of rocket and getting it into space, but you also need to know how to keep these satellites going around the sun without having them fall into it. Keeping these satellites in their orbits probably has a lot to do with rotational kinematics, as well as with dynamics involving the forces of the rocket engines.
If you wanted to relate this to Energy and Work, you could say that the propulsion of the engines of the satellites is kinetic energy at work, and since these engines are applying a force on the satellite and making it move a distance, work as defined by physics, is being done.

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Study Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth’s Orbit and Tilt.

This article is about how the earths orbit can affect different species of mammals. The article focuses on the effects of the orbit effect the mice' population. It says that when the orbit is more circular the cycle is at its peak for the mice. There are also smaller cycles that the mice go through dealing with the tilt in the earth's axis. There are scientists that have found evidence that the earth's rotation can have nothing to do with species turnover too. The findings discussed in this article are very controversial.
This article is definitely related to physics because it deals with the earth's rotation and things involving movement in our universe. I think that these movements are a big part of physics, and therefore this article really deals with a lot of physics. This article can specifically be related to kinetics because of the earth's movements discussed.
I personally don't think that these findings will affect me much. Although they could have very important uses for archeologists and people who study biology.

Shuttle Glides to an Incident-Free Landing

I found another NASA article that interested me. It deals with the shuttle and how it has safely landed. This landing marks NASA's resumetion of building the international space station. Antlantis was found to have a piece of plastic jammed in its tiles, but the engineer team fixed it.
This article can be related to our phsics class because we are studying acceleration right now, and I think that specifically where the article says that the shuttle had to be slowed down to 205 mph to reenter the earth's atmosphere is of key interest because the decelleration there must have been very fast. I think that the shuttle goes around the earth a lot faster than that to stay in orbit, and those rocket engines had to have a lot of power to slow the shuttle down in 2 minutes.

Puzzling Puffy Planet, Less Dense Than Cork, Is Discovered

I was very interested in astronomy when I was younger, so this article seemed to stick out for me. It is also one that was not discussed in class. It is about a new planet that has been found in a galaxy 450 light-years away. It is unique in that it seems to be as dense as a wine bottle cork. They say that it would float on water, and I don't know where you'd find an ocean big enough to hold it. Yea, I know that they just mean that it would theoretically. It is about 25% as dense as water. What interests me most about this article is that they can figure out how dense something is from 450 light-years away. Apparently they can only even tell that it is there by light fluctuations from the star it revolves around. That just amazes me, and leads me to question if their results can even be justified. If I actually had time on my hands, I'd like to look into their research and see what this is all about, and how they can make these educated guesses.
I think this can related to physics through kinematics with the whole light dim thing. They use the light dim to estimate how long it takes the planet to move into the way of the star and then out again. This has a lot to do with motion, and the study of it. Probably involving hard to figure out motion equations and reasoning.
If it takes the light from the star 450 years to get here, is that planet really the same anymore? Because, using the reasoning that light is required to see anything, the light must have to bounce off the planet for us to see it. Our sight is the collection of what light was originally bounced off that planet; which takes 450 years to get here. This means that we are seeing the planet 450 years in the past. That's what I think interests me the most about it.