Feb
25
Teaching Without a Textbook
February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
No Books, No Problem. ‘Thanks to a forward-thinking teacher, chemistry students quickly learn to love leaving the textbook behind.’
Feb
25
Mimicking Nature’s Chemical Strategies
February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Chemistry Au Naturel. ‘Mimicking nature’s clean and efficient ways. Over the past 3.5 billion years, cells have evolved into superlatively sophisticated chemical factories capable of churning out thousands of the most complex and capable molecules known. Whether it’s translating DNA into proteins, responding to a viral attack, or transforming sugar into cellular fuel, many [...]
Feb
19
Water-Solid Interface
February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
When Water Meets a Solid Surface. ‘A new technique has produced detailed and surprising molecular images of the water-solid interface, revealing intermixed regions of ice-like and liquid-like structures.’
Feb
19
Arctic Pollution
February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Arctic turning into chemical dump. ‘The Arctic is becoming a chemical dump, with higher concentrations of some man-made chemicals than the countries where the pollutants were made, according to a new report.’
Feb
19
Chemistry is Back!
February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Chemistry is back! University’s Chemistry Expansion. ‘Newcastle University is expanding its chemistry course just months after scrapping degrees in pure physics.’
Feb
18
Science. gov Alert Service
February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Science.gov offers new alert service. ‘DOE and other federal science agencies help public stay “alert” to the latest R&D results with Science.gov Alert Service.’
Feb
18
Chemistry Teacher Arrested
February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Chemistry Teacher Arrested for Teaching Explosive Reactions. [via Findory]
Update: Teacher Accused Of Teaching Bomb-Making. (with video)
Feb
18
Come and Get It
February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The Reality of Open-Access Journal Articles. ‘Open access is no longer just an idea to be deconstructed, analyzed, and reanalyzed. We now have information about how publishers are practicing it and how scholars and researchers are reacting to it. The really intriguing questions about the topic today deal with the reality of open access and [...]
Feb
18
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Inside a Free-Speech Firestorm
February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Inside a Free-Speech Firestorm. ‘Hours after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Ward Churchill compared the victims to the Nazis. A professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he wrote in an essay that those killed in the World Trade Center were not innocent civilians but “little Eichmanns”.’
Feb
17
Liquid Carbon
February 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Liquid Carbon Chemistry. The Chemistry of Carbon above 5000 K and 100 Atmospheres of Pressure.
Feb
17
Oxygen Sponge Converts Hydrogen into Water
February 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Oxygen Sponge Saves Energy During The Production Of Plastics. ‘Hydrogen is released during the conversion of ethane and propane to ethylene and propylene, raw materials for the production of plastics. Using oxygen from a so-called oxygen sponge to convert hydrogen into water saves a lot of energy during the production process.’
Feb
16
IBM Scientists Control the Charge State of an Atom
February 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
IBM scientists control the charge state of an individual atom. ‘A milestone in the development of future atomic-scale devices.’ (nice pictures available)
