Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals: Scientists at […]
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SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”. ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison). SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for […]
These germs join carbon to silicon.
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs: Researchers […]
You can’t un-boil egg. Or… hang on a minute!
Popular Science reveals a way in which you CAN un-boil an egg: When you boil an egg, the heat causes the proteins inside the egg […]
Now you can count them before they’re hatched.
Or at least sex them. Yes, so, if you’re not up on your poultry husbandry, sexing chickens is a big thing – an enormous thing. […]
Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958
This is how parents in the 50s were expected to conceptualize their bright, nonconformist children – as happy, well-groomed chemists. Then the 60s happened. From […]
Drinking the ocean.
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable: Desal […]
Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine: For centuries […]
Making batteries from seafood leftovers.
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs: [Mark] MacLachlan [of the […]
3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
SONG: “Atomic Number” (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Atomic Number”. ARTIST: grant. (Originally by case/lang/veirs.) SOURCE: This doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential cover of a new song by case/lang/veirs, […]
Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.
I found this elegant (if obscure) glassware at the public domain image repository at Reusable Art. I’m guessing it was used to detect poisons more […]
Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York
Click to embiggen Welcome to Wellcome. They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more […]
Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage: Researchers led by […]