Making a pain-free battery: “Nickel doesn’t have child-labor issues.”
Scientific Frontline looks at a new way to create rechargeable lithium-ion batteries – the power behind electric cars, iPhones, and most of the rest of […]
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Elemental music from a spectroscope.
Ars Technica digs the research of Indiana University grad student W. Walker Smith, who has combined his interests in music and chemistry to create a […]
Kids are wearing toxic make-up
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including lead […]
Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste! I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or […]
Silk for Teflon. Non-stick silk. Silk without friction.
The National Science Foundation puts a spotlight on Tufts University, where researchers have taken proteins from the cocoons of silk moths and used them to […]
Gas flares don’t burn off as much methane as they should – to the tune of 3 million cars’ worth of pollution.
Science News looks gas flares, the open flames used to burn off leaking natural gas and to convert methane to CO2 directly at oil fields. […]
Science Art: Bunsen burner flame types, by Arthur Jan Fijałkowski (WarX).
The flame from a Bunsen burner (a standard piece of chemistry equipment; you might have used one in high school) can change color and height […]
Science Art: Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP): GAF’s Gift to Women, 1967.
This is an ad for a chemical that seemed like a miracle in the 60s (at least to this marketing department), but is one of […]
There are two waters, once it gets cold.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that ordinary water becomes ice when it gets really cold (which we all already knew) but also […]
Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.
This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery […]
There’s radioactive material *everywhere*. Here’s who’s trying to clean up clinics and food processing plants..
Scientific American introduces us to the RadSecure program, which aims to keep the radioactive isotopes in use all around us from getting too close for […]
SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used […]
On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record […]
These recycled lithium-ion batteries are outperforming new ones.
IEEE Spectrum reports on a research team that has created a new method for recycling the environmentally risky chemicals used in lithium-ion batteries – the […]
Bacteria-killing copper fights superbug spread
Australia’s RMIT University is excited by the prospects of a surface that kills bacteria on its own, without any antiseptics being applied – a new […]