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As any good chef knows, mechanical stress aids the transfer of thermodynamic energy in a closed system. They employ this knowledge every time they press an ingredient down into a pan or grill, greatly increasing the efficiency of heat transfer from metal to food. We usually see that interaction exclusively from one perspective, that of using the pan to add ...

The 50 Shades of Grey movie will be released in February 2015 [GETTY] Library copies of the kinky bestseller were found to carry traces of the HERPES virus and COCAINE. Scientists made the shocking discovery after testing the ten most frequently borrowed books on the shelf. Another romance, Tango, by Pieter Asper, was also found to be carrying herpes, while ...

Win McNamee/Getty Images Obama speaks about an administrative fix for some of the problems with the HealthCare.gov. website in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Nov. 14, in Washington, DC. LOS ANGELES  — Fears that insurance exchanges that are the linchpin of President Barack Obama‘s federal health care overhaul wouldn’t attract the young, healthy people needed ...

Hot on the heels of (reportedly) harnessing nuclear fusion and a slew of ballistic missile launches, South Korea’s intelligence agency is now reporting that Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea is developing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon. At a bare minimum, this EMP could theoretically damage electronic equipment south of the Korean DMZ. At higher power levels, a real EMP device can ...