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 [...]