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
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!”
This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke called it “radiant matter”… Read the rest “Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..”
This isn’t actually a discovery. It’s something you can do at home. All you need is bismuth, a pot and a stove and you can grow your own crystalline rainbow skyscrapers:
… Read the rest “Chemistry crafts: crystals!”The Amazing
PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s deserts bloom. The stuff is just like … Read the rest “Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.”
Pogue’s Posts‘ recent look at the latest TED talks underlines one particular presentation that seems pretty interesting. It’s by a fellow named Kamal Meattle who’s… Read the rest “Green up your office, green out your lungs.”
New Scientist uncorks the peculiar way passion affects our scents, by blanketing would-be competitors with the smell of love:
… Read the rest “Love is… a natural deodorant?”In a series of trials, each woman was asked to pick out their
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff:
… Read the rest “Electric Plonk.”It is backed by a decade of research, the results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal and the end product
RedOrbit.com has a comprehensive overview (and yes, this is a summary of an overview) of research proving male organisms around the world are becoming feminized:
… Read the rest “I feel… different. Prettier.”The research shows that
Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel:
… Read the rest “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower….”Carried out with the help of a catalyst
The glorious MAKE blog has the scientific gift guide of my dreams: chemistry sets and DIY books for garage explosives experts and drug manufacturers. No, wait. Scientists! I mean scientists.… Read the rest “Gift Guide: CHEMISTRY!”
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all:
… Read the rest “Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.”…[I]t may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist
Recently, Dr. Roger Tsien earned a Nobel prize for his work in creating a stunning array of colorful, glowing proteins. Not only are they, like, totally psychedelically intense, man, but… Read the rest “Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?”
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree power” company… Read the rest “If a potato can power a clock…”
From the trenches of the War on Drugs comes a New Scientist pharmaceutical report that’s bound to have doctors and pain patients alike going “Duuuude.”
… Read the rest “Morphine plus pot equals, like, no pain, man.”For example,
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