Feb

28

Medical Journals: Open Access

February 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

FreeMedicalJournals.com - Promoting free access to medical journals. ‘Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. Open access medical textbooks will soon become the standard in medical publishing.’

Feb

27

MadeHow.com

February 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment

How Products Are Made. ‘How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related [...]

Feb

23

Better Than This? Impossible!

February 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Quantum computer works best switched off. ‘Even for the crazy world of quantum mechanics, this one is twisted. A quantum computer program has produced an answer without actually running.’

Feb

23

Aerogel

February 23, 2006 | 1 Comment

A Solid That’s Light as Air. ‘If you wanted to catch a few particles of comet dust speeding through the vacuum of space at 6 kilometers per second - without damaging or destroying those particles - how would you do it? Faced with exactly this problem, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory focused on aerogel [...]

Feb

22

Distilling Ionic Liquids

February 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Surprise discovery that ionic liquids can be distilled. ‘Green solvents are now easier to recycle and purify, following the discovery that ionic liquids are volatile and can be distilled. Luis Rebelo from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, led an international team to test the hypothesis that ionic liquids (ILs) – long thought of as [...]

Feb

21

Super Cyclopentadienyl (Cp) Complexes

February 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Cyclopentadienyl Superligand Debuts. ‘The first synthesis of metal cyclopentadienyl (Cp) complexes substituted with five other metal cyclopentadienyl groups has been accomplished by K. Peter C. Vollhardt of the University of California, Berkeley, and coworkers. These “super Cp” complexes are of interest for fundamental chemical studies and are expected to function as substrates or ligands in [...]

Feb

21

Particle Impact

February 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

This NASA handout image shows a particle impact on the aluminum frame that holds the aerogel tiles from the Stardust collector grid.
From: Yahoo Science Photos (AFP/NASA/JPL-HO/File)

Feb

21

Stardust: First Results

February 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Stardust Mission Yields Ancient Comet Dust. ‘After a seven-year wait, scientists have finally been able to analyze the cometary and stellar dust particles captured by the NASA Stardust spacecraft. While the samples appear to lack indicators of water, they do contain sulfides, a key component to life.’

Feb

20

Stem Cells

February 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment

How Stem Cells Work. ‘Inside an embryo no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence are dozens of stem cells. Initially, these cells are blank slates, meaning that their fate is undecided. But they have great potential. Stem cells are pluripotent, which means that they can develop into every cell, every tissue [...]

Feb

19

Alternative Energy: Geothermal

February 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Geothermal energy booms in Germany. ‘Geothermal energy plants, which make use of our planet’s interior heat, are becoming increasingly popular in Western Europe. While Switzerland, Italy and Iceland have long harvested the heat from deep down, the latest country with a geothermal boom is Germany. Roughly 99 percent of the Earth’s mass is hotter than [...]

Feb

19

How to Lower Cholesterol

February 19, 2006 | 1 Comment

Pistachios, sunflower seeds may help lower cholesterol. ‘According to a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, sesame seeds and wheat germ ranked highest for phytosterols among the nuts and seed that were investigated. Phytosterols are chemicals found in plants that have been shown to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of some [...]

Feb

19

Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes: TILLING

February 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Tweaking Plants for Better Health. ‘Genetically modified crops have received an official thumbs-down internationally, promises of feeding the world notwithstanding. But a new technology could get the same results without actual genetic modification.’
Development of an HTP gene knockout system in crop plants: bridging the gap between structural genomics and functional genomics.
TILLING: a tool for functional [...]

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