Science Art: Front Cover, Chemistry of Photography by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
An artisan, working with technology. A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
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Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers: Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used […]
Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch: Martin Steinhaus, from the […]
Pollution-tracking by bird.
Nature reveals the outdoor version of canaries in a coalmine – how researchers use swallows and homing pigeons to track pollution: Nesting birds that feed […]
Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.
UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels: Campus chemists and chemical engineers […]
M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.
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 […]
Electric tongue tastes proteins.
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 […]
Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease: It found evidence […]
Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can: The paint-on battery, like all lithium […]
Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.
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 […]
Pesticides make bees… picky.
PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters: The UC San Diego […]
Turning pollution into gold.
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: Making carbon-based […]
Science Art: Fig. 9, (electrolysis of water) from Chemistry, 1876.
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” […]
SONG: “This Stupid War”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via […]
Silly putty pothole repair
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets: …[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in […]