SONG: Mexican Coke.
SONG: “Mexican Coke” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that … Read the rest “SONG: Mexican Coke.”
chemistry
Fire from ice.
Discovery News finds a strange new source of energy – gas hydrates, solid chunks of frozen natural gas better known as combustible ice:
… Read the rest “Fire from ice.”In China, the deposit is in a high, frozen plateau,
Hot, Heavy Matter.
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab:
… Read the rest “Hot, Heavy Matter.”Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the temperature of a minuscule glob of dense, hot
Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware
This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds.
It’s for sale right now as part of a fundraiser… Read the rest “Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware”
Salt, paper, battery!
The technical chefs at M.I.T. have come up with a cheap, fun recipe – with simple ingredients like salt and paper, you can start cooking up electricity:
… Read the rest “Salt, paper, battery!”The salt-and-paper battery
Deadly plastic ocean.
Discovery brings up the grim possibility that we’re all doomed to die in an invisible toxic wave:
… Read the rest “Deadly plastic ocean.”Patterns in ocean currents create conglomerations of swirling trash that have received
Smell of death.
Science Daily is hard boiled. As hard boiled as death. And death, they say, has a smell all its own:
… Read the rest “Smell of death.”Speaking at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they said
And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.
PhysOrg brings back memories of Star Trek IV (the time-traveling whale one) with the revelation of a new state of matter – transparent aluminum:
… Read the rest “And we’ll use it to save the humpback whales.”‘What we have created is a completely
Feather in your tank.
The Daily Green recently revealed an alternative fuel scheme that may be much better than bird-brained:
… Read the rest “Feather in your tank.”Finding novel uses for chicken feathers is a pet project of Professor Richard P.
Deadly Roundup
Scientific American confirms my suspicions about my neighbors and their well-manicured, weedless yards. All that stuff they’re spraying? Yeah, it’ll kill you:
… Read the rest “Deadly Roundup”One label
Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics:
… Read the rest “Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.”Around the world, scientists are closely examining
Cosmic dacquiri.
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re all swimming in a cosmic dacquiri:
… Read the rest “Cosmic dacquiri.”In the latest survey,
Feeling contaminated? Plastic pipes trump glass bottles.
Think your bottled water is all safe from fake estrogen contamination because you’ve switched to glass bottles? ScienceNews wants you to think again:
… Read the rest “Feeling contaminated? Plastic pipes trump glass bottles.”…[T]heir data indicate
X for the Veterans!
ScientificBlogging.com invites the military to join in the PLUR culture: Patriotism, Love, Unity and Respect. New research shows that if you really want to support the troops, you should… Read the rest “X for the Veterans!”