Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter. ‘NutritionData (ND) provides nutrition facts, Calorie counts, and nutrient data for all foods and recipes. ND tells you, in simple terms, what’s good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs.’ [via Marcus P. Zillman]

NASA seeks answer to life, the universe and everything. ‘An advisory panel has set four ambitious objectives for NASA as it addresses the big questions of life, the universe, and everything. But the biggest question of all may not be whether the answer is 42, but whether the space agency can find the money to [...]

Not Hydrogen – Ammonia!: A recent letter to Physics Today, by Sandia National Laboratory scientist Peter J. Feibelman, offers a surprisingly easy path to hydrogen storage: store it as ammonia!

PubChem

June 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The PubChem Project. ‘PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.’

An Open Statement in Support of NIH/NCBI’s PubChem. ‘We believe that bioscience and healthcare have benefited greatly from the aggregation of and free access to research data such as genomes, protein structures and sequences. Scientists and lay people alike can search the international databases for disease information, and drill down to find the most recent [...]

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