Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers:
… Read the rest “Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!”Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used to cool magnets in MRI scanners
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch:
… Read the rest “Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?”Martin Steinhaus, from the German Research Center
Nature reveals the outdoor version of canaries in a coalmine – how researchers use swallows and homing pigeons to track pollution:
… Read the rest “Pollution-tracking by bird.”Nesting birds that feed on insects that hatch in
UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels:
… Read the rest “Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.”Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel
French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”
Laboratory Equipment finds a whole new depth to that umami thing. French chemists have devised an artificial tongue sensitive enough to tell the difference between proteins:
… Read the rest “Electric tongue tastes proteins.”Biosensors
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.”It found evidence that
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.”The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters:
… Read the rest “Pesticides make bees… picky.”The UC San Diego biologists focused
PhysOrg gets me all het up over this modern-day alchemist who’s figured out how to transmute greenhouse gases into useful materials… and energy:
… Read the rest “Turning pollution into gold.”Making carbon-based products
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets:
… Read the rest “Silly putty pothole repair”…[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland…
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New
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