Oct

25

SnowCrystals.com

October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Snowflakes and Snow Crystals. ‘This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes — what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air.’ [via The OpenScience Project Blog]

Oct

25

Environmentally Friendly Catalysts

October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Road to greener chemistry paved with nano-gold, researchers report. ‘The selective oxidation processes that are used to make compounds contained in agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and other chemical products can be accomplished more cleanly and more efficiently with gold nanoparticle catalysts, researchers have reported in Nature magazine.’

Oct

25

Archives Preservation

October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Antioxidants to the Rescue. ‘Thousands of historical documents are rotting to pieces in archives, and until now, historians have been powerless to preserve the priceless parchments.’

Oct

22

LAAPhysics

October 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Learn Anytime Anywhere Physics. ‘LAAPhysics is a physics education research and development project. Our goal is a pedagogically driven open-ended laboratory physics courseware product that promotes model-based learning.’

Oct

22

Ionic Liquids

October 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Ionic chemicals could replace solvents. ‘Rutgers chemistry researchers Hideaki Shirota and Edward Castner say ionic liquid chemicals can perform many of the same functions as organic, petroleum-based solvents, but will not burn or evaporate into the atmosphere.’ Ionic Liquids.