Jan
31
Plastics From Oranges
January 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Oranges a building block for ‘greener’ plastic. “Cornell University chemists are looking for ways to take the petroleum out of plastics. And nature has provided one green alternative, in the form of oranges”.
Jan
31
Journal of Nanobiotechnology
January 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Journal of Nanobiotechnology. Direct link here.
Jan
30
Web Collaborator
January 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Web Collaborator - Free web-based collaboration software.
Jan
30
Movies Science
January 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Movies Science: The Biology of B-Movie Monsters and Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics.
Update: BBC Hollywood Science. [via PSIgate]
Jan
30
Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin
January 30, 2005 | 1 Comment
Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin. From Raymond Rogers paper (published on Thermochimica Acta): “Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not valid for determining the true [...]
Jan
29
Environmental Health and Toxicology Resources
January 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
New Environmental Health and Toxicology Internet Resource Guides.
Jan
29
Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
January 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. “This site looks at an independent study commissioned by the UK government to look at likely developments and whether nanotechnology raises or is likely to raise new ethical, health and safety or social issues which are not covered by current regulation”. Direct link here.
Jan
29
Chlorine Plants
January 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Chlorine Plants Among the Largest Sources of Mercury.
Jan
28
Albert Einstein and the World Year of Physics 2005
January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Albert Einstein and the World Year of Physics 2005. “Science is a powerful instrument. How it is used, whether it is a blessing or a curse to mankind, depends on mankind and not on the instrument. A knife is useful, but it can also kill.” - Albert Einstein.
Jan
28
NIST Virtual Museum
January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
NIST Virtual Museum. Direct link here.
Jan
28
Ranking of Greenness
January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Nations ranked in order of greenness.
Jan
28
Comedy Research Project
January 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
What is the Comedy Research Project? The Comedy Research Project aims to prove the hypothesis that science can be funny. Preliminary data suggests that their hypothesis may be true. [via Ciência Hoje]
