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]

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