Wednesday 21 October 2009

Identification of Liquids on Planes

It looks likely that we will soon be able to take our own liquids onto planes again if the findings in this paper are turned into commercially viable equipment. Using their Hilbert Spectrometer scientists from the Forschungszentrum (Research Centre) Juelich in Germany have managed to identify liquids in 0.2 seconds, which shouldn't hold up the airport queue for too long!

Your Wednesday questions are: -
  1. Which naval battle saw the defeat of a Franco-Spanish fleet today in 1805?

  2. Benjamin Netanyahu (right) was born today in 1949 and is Prime Minister of which country?

  3. Joseph Aspdin, a bricklayer from Leeds, obtained a patent for which building material today in 1824?
Yesterday's Answers: 1. Jacqueline Kennedy; 2. "Slumdog Millionaire"; 3. Snoop Dogg

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