January 2012
114 posts
Two teens from Toronto sent a Lego man into space... →
scinerds:
into-the-universe:
Image from The Gazette (Montreal)
This is amazing. Watch and read.
(±0.2 Billion Years.): New 'smart'... →
bloodredorion:
Although it will need to be further tested before being ready for clinical use, it could potentially improve treatment for Type I diabetes.
The approach was found to increase drug efficacy; it is concentrated at target sites, such as regions of the pancreas that…
KEMist's Nerd-Blog: Dichloromethane as a TLC Plate... →
kem-ist:
In a previous entry I did I had written about Thin Layer Chromatography, how it works, why it’s used, and the solvents used to separate the samples spotted on TLC plates. This is sort of a branch off of that blog, as there’s something new I wanted to talk about.
An organic chemistry lab…
Graphene: Supermaterial Goes Superpermeable →
shychemist:
Wonder material graphene has revealed another of its extraordinary properties — University of Manchester researchers have found that it is superpermeable with respect to water.
Graphene is one of the wonders of the science world, with the potential to create foldaway mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels and the next generation of aircraft. The new finding at the...
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PLEASE REBLOG THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE →
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wearylove:
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prawnosaurus:
This is a petition on the Directgov website - this goes straight through to parliment and at the current time of posting it only has 21 signatures
I know a lot of people are reblogging the one sponsored by anonymous which is great but if you live in the UK, this is going to be your best best at getting yourself heard about ACTA - even if...
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“The mystical healing properties of tears are invoked in fairy tales and...”
– How Tears Go ‘Pac-Man’ To Beat Bacteria (via npr)
All it takes is just one molecule of lysozyme.
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