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 ‘Thousands of historical documents are rotting to pieces in archives, and until now, historians have been powerless to preserve the priceless parchments.’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

Oct

20

Science & Society Picture Library (SSPL)

October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Science & Society Picture Library. ‘Science & Society Picture Library represents the collections of the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - as well as a variety of related collections. SSPL now has over 150 image collections from both within and outside the museums’ core collections. [...]

Oct

18

More Quantum Bits

October 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Atoms Under Control. ‘Complex computing operations could be greatly accelerated through massive parallel processing in a quantum computer. The smallest units of information are known as quantum bits, which could be realized using atoms or molecules, if one can manipulate their position, quantum state, and interactions with other particles. Controlling single atoms in an optical [...]

Oct

17

MetaSite

October 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Finding Drug Metabolic Sites. ‘A software program that could have a significant impact on drug discovery has been developed and tested by a European group. The program, MetaSite, predicts which part of a potential drug compound will be metabolized by one of the major human cytochrome P450 enzymes. It also predicts which cytochrome will catalyze [...]

Oct

14

World Universities’ Ranking on the Web

October 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

World Universities’ ranking on the Web. ‘The “World Universities’ ranking on the Web” is an initiative of the Laboratorio de Internet, a working group devoted to the quantitative study of the internet and specially the process of scholar communication in the Web.’
‘The current version of “World Universities’ ranking on the Web” is still in beta [...]

Oct

14

Impact Factor

October 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Number That’s Devouring Science. ‘Indeed, impact factors have assumed so much power, especially in the past five years, that they are starting to control the scientific enterprise. In Europe, Asia, and, increasingly, the United States, Mr. Garfield’s tool can play a crucial role in hiring, tenure decisions, and the awarding of grants.’
Discussion at Crooked [...]