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Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Material

May 31, 2006 | 3 Comments

Super Plastic Both Attracts and Repels Water. ‘An odd new material could be a boon in dry regions with limited access to clean water. A new, practical method for making surfaces with patterns of areas that strongly attract and strongly repel water could lead to a highly efficient method for capturing clean water. This versatile [...]

May

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Science’s 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

May 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Science’s 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments. ‘Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York [...]

May

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Fred Butler: Liquid Carbon Dioxide Dry Cleaning

May 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Green Chemistry. ‘CO2-Based Dry-Cleaning Chain Launched In Germany. The German industrial gases giant Linde is launching a new chain of dry cleaners, called Fred Butler, that will use a carbon dioxide-based washing technique.’ Linde: Dry Cleaning with Carbon Dioxide (CO2). ‘Dry Cleaning with liquid Carbon Dioxide, rather than suspected carcinogen perchlorethylene or highly flammable hydrocarbon/petroleum, [...]

May

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Chmoogle to eMolecules

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Chemistry Search Engine Provider eMolecules Changes ‘Chmoogle’ Web Site Name Under Pressure From Google: eMolecules announced today that, under pressure from industry giant Google, it is changing the name of its premiere chemistry search engine to www.emolecules.com, and dropping the name Chmoogle in favor of eMolecules. eMolecules Chemical Search – Searching the World’s Chemistry.

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Marriage and Scientific Career

May 29, 2006 | 1 Comment

Scientific Success: What’s Love Got to Do With It?. ‘Does marriage sink a scientific career or send it soaring? Several years ago, Satoshi Kanazawa, then a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, analyzed a biographical database of 280 great scientists – mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and biologists. When he calculated the age [...]