Articles in science
As America’s Top Atom Smasher Closes, Fermilab Searches for New Relevance
How Climate Change Could Hurt Yellowstone National Park
Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted
Is Thorium the …
UC Santa Cruz Science Notes 2011 via ksjtracker
Gamers solve retrovirus structure via slashdot
Hydrogen production using microbial reverse-electrodialysis electrolysis cells via are technica
Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces via Not Exactly Rocket Science
History of the Tevatron, which is …
Climate Quitters: Sorry You Lose
Efficient Excited Energy Transfer Reaction in Clay/Porphyrin Complex toward an Artificial Light-Harvesting System via Next Big Future
Trusting Experts and Why rejecting expertise has become a campaign strategy
Why natural gas may hardly …
Directly comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl via slashdot
Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition & Reckonings; Bait and Switch via Daring Fireball
New Superconductor Wires Could Give Renewable Energy More Charge via slashdot
Simplified model in recent …
Lots of blather: Was Irene a global warming storm? (wrong question. Answer is yes but it’s still meaningless)
A Mix of spider silk, Goats milk and human skin can stop a reduced speed 22 caliber bullet …
“A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.”
— Frank H. Westheimer
A wealth of information exists outside of Google, although both Google and Google Scholar are powerful tools. How …
Discussion of the BP oil plume in context with a New York Times article and a Science Magazine research paper concerning Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon – See also Ars, the Knight Science …
Complex biological networks in leaves via wired
Energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, mobile phones via next big future
Fuel from plant biomass via C&EN
Hubble detects mysterious X-shaped debris pattern via gizmodo
Study linking autism to vaccine retracted …
It’s about time to throw some credibility to fans of the 2012 apocalypse theory. There is a lot of talk of ancient Mayan calendars, interstellar collisions, and terrestrial polar shifts and while there is …
Generation of functional blood vessels from stem cells via Next Big Future and Nature
Altered microbe makes biofuel – naturenews
Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design – Science
FDA Raises Flag On Bisphenol A – C&EN
The Neural …
UVa engineers find significant environmental impacts with algae-based biofuel via Slashdot
Using acid/base chemistry to solve a maze via Nature
Lab accident under investigation
11-year-old’s science project leads to school evacuation via Techdirt via Slashdot
Fixing carbon dioxide as …
One’s breast shape may not always be as perfect as those seen in the Victoria Secret catalogue; however, when you’re paying $10,000.00 for them, they better come pretty darn close. Many doctors are toying with …
Depending on how frequently you travel, you may or may not have experienced the many inconveniences of going through airport security. Considering that I travel approximately 2200 miles to get to Villanova, I fall into …
With all the focus on global warming and greenhouse gases the question becomes how much of it has been caused by humans? NOAA researchers have discovered a large source of methane in the Arctic Ocean …
The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of the universe is increasing. Black holes contribute to the entropy of the universe by breaking down matter into more disordered states. Previous studies on a …
Chemistry journals I ‘try’ to keep up with (every two weeks or monthly):
Accounts of Chemical Research | RSS
Crystal Growth & Design | RSS
Inorganic Chemistry | RSS
Chemical Society Reviews | RSS
Dalton Transactions | RSS
Angewandte Chemie | …
If you need further justification for research, check out this piece over at wired…
But although nature can make a remarkably wide variety of chemicals — far more than the best molecule-making robots — it does …
A nice piece at Slate about what’s next.
Scientists, with the support of the administration, should now be setting out to win over the hearts and minds of the American public, creating a stronger edifice of …
