It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice cream using frozen nitrogen. Science art… Read the rest “Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.”
Nature reports on a new way to turn ship exhaust into an energy source. Dr. Jun Kang at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University in South Korea has devised a way to capture soot from diesel engines… Read the rest “Ship-exhaust power: making batteries from soot.”
Science Daily looks at a form of cellulose – that is, like, wood, you know? – that’s been remade at the nano-level to be stronger than dragline spider silk:
… Read the rest “Bio-material stronger than steel… and spider silk.”The team headed
SONG: “Titanium” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the February song. (I think… Read the rest “SONG: Titanium (penitential cover)”
Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful microscope and seeing what’s… Read the rest “Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922”
Nature gets a little provocative with research that seems to show that as much air pollution comes from our houses as our cars:
… Read the rest “Household chemicals cause as much smog as cars now?”Volatile organic compounds contribute to the formation of
Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames:
… Read the rest “Making wood that’s stronger than steel”“It’s a new class of materials with great potential,” says Li
Science Daily has more on the Osaka University researchers who have found a new way to stick together the ever-more complicated cells for 3D printing:
… Read the rest “A sticky bioprinting breakthrough.”Printed replacement human body parts
NextBigFuture bigs up the Rice University researchers who added a pinch of asphalt and graphene to their batteries to create a high-capacity power source that that charges up 20 times faster… Read the rest “Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.”
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Ooo! Everyone loves a party!
This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, description) is “Top view of ribbon diagram… Read the rest “Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH). ”
SONG: “The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon).”
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SOURCE:The quest to crystallize time,” Nature, 8 Mar 2017, as used in the post “
‘It’s… Read the rest “SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)”
From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947.
This is what little kids were reading then.
Not that our culture is in decline or anything.
(The cover is brilliant, too.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947”
Science Daily peeks into the deep, deep history of the “Great Oxidation Event,” analyzing a very old sample of some of the first oxygen to appear on Earth:
… Read the rest “Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.”Christopher Junium,
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:
… Read the rest “Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere”Scientists at the Department of Energy’s
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