SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”.
ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison).
SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s… Read the rest “SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)””
Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs:
… Read the rest “These germs join carbon to silicon.”Researchers have learned to bind carbon
Popular Science reveals a way in which you CAN un-boil an egg:
… Read the rest “You can’t un-boil egg. Or… hang on a minute!”When you boil an egg, the heat causes the proteins inside the egg white to tangle and clump together, solidifying it. New research
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. Girl chickens grow up to lay eggs. Boy chickens –… Read the rest “Now you can count them before they’re hatched.”
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 a helpful, U.S.… Read the rest “Science Art: Your Gifted Child frontispiece, 1958”
Scientific American (and notable author Rowan Jacobsen) reports on the dry, dry nation of Israel creating a water surplus by making the sea drinkable:
… Read the rest “Drinking the ocean.”Desal works by pushing saltwater
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:
… Read the rest “Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!”For centuries scholars wondered
Hakai magazine explains how we can turn crab and lobster shells into batteries, plastics and (maybe) scaffolds for growing new organs:
… Read the rest “Making batteries from seafood leftovers.”[Mark] MacLachlan [of the University of British
Science Daily has more on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who have 3D-printed a polymer that turns methane to methanol:
… Read the rest “3D printers make a methane-eating plastic… that excretes fuel.”Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery.
This is a photo illustrating how, as … Read the rest “Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.”
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… Read the rest “SONG: “Atomic Number” (a penitential cover)”
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 so than to examine tea, but I honestly… Read the rest “Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.”
Welcome to Wellcome.
They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more marvelous experimental… Read the rest “Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York”
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage:
… Read the rest “Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.”Researchers
It’s tough being a bee for lots of reasons, but at least, as New Scientist reports, brain damage from chemical warfare won’t be as much of a problem any more – not in the … Read the rest “American bees get a (small) break.”
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