Aug

27

HEAL - Health Education Assets Library

August 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL). ‘The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today’s health sciences educators and learners.’
Tags: HEAL, Health Education, Digital+Library

Aug

23

Chemistry Central: Open Access Chemistry Articles

August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Chemistry Central. ‘Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from the same team that created BioMed Central, the leading biomedical open access publisher. The Chemistry Central website currently features chemistry-related articles published in BioMed Central journals. Chemistry Central is planning to launch further chemistry-specific journals in the near future, [...]

Aug

22

Dark Matter Not So Dark Afterall

August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Scientists Offer Proof of ‘Dark Matter’ - Analysis of Galactic Collision Said to Reveal Mysterious Substance. ‘For decades, many scientists have theorized that the universe is made up of nearly undetectable mysterious substances called dark matter and dark energy. But until yesterday there was no proof that the subatomic matter actually exists. After studying data [...]

Aug

20

Science News for Kids

August 20, 2006 | 1 Comment

Science News for Kids. ‘Science News for Kids is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 13. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. Our emphasis is on making the [...]

Aug

18

XXL Sized Periodic Table

August 18, 2006 | 1 Comment

World’s Largest Periodic Table of Elements. ‘Its impact is huge: it neatly organizes the substances from which all matter is composed. But this fall, in Chicago, the periodic table of elements is going to literally be huge – eight stories tall. The world’s largest periodic table of the elements will be unveiled in [...]

Aug

17

Biofuels Production Impacts

August 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Biofuels require subsidies. ‘Demand for biofuels will increase over the next 10 years, but producers will still depend on government support. Oil prices have seen a sustained increase since 2004, and consumer demand for biofuels is greater than before and is likely to accelerate in coming years, according to a report by the Organisation for [...]

Aug

16

Skoool.co.uk

August 16, 2006 | 1 Comment

Skoool.co.uk - Learning and Teaching Technology. ’skoool.co.uk is an Intel® driven initiative that brings you highly innovative, interactive and exciting learning resources via cutting edge technologies and devices. skoool.co.uk provides learners and teachers with all they need to support their understanding of Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) and Maths for Key Stages 3 and 4. It [...]

Aug

15

FUSE Helps to Solve the Deuterium Puzzle: New Theories Needed

August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment

“Hidden” Milky Way Deuterium Found. ‘Scientists using NASA’s Johns Hopkins University-operated Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite have learned that far more “heavy” hydrogen remains in our Milky Way galaxy than expected, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy formation. This form of hydrogen, called deuterium, was created a few [...]

Aug

15

Carbon Nanotubes X-Ray Technology

August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment

CT Imaging Gets Boost from Carbon Nanotubes. ‘Scientists at the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have developed a new method to create computed tomography (CT) images using carbon nanotube x-rays. This new method, which works much faster than traditional scanners and uses less peak power, represents a step toward developing scanners for medical imaging [...]

Aug

14

Nanotubes for Electronics

August 14, 2006 | 1 Comment

New method of growing carbon nanotubes to revolutionise electronics. ‘A new method of growing carbon nanotubes is predicted to revolutionise the implementation of nanotechnology and the future of electronics. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully grown nanotubes at a temperature which permits their full integration into present complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology (350 [...]

Aug

8

Bipyridyl-Dinitro Oligophenylene-Ethynylene Dithiol (BPDN-DT) Switch and Memory Storage

August 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Single molecule makes electronic switch. ‘A single molecule, trapped between two electrodes, acts as a switch and has a ‘memory’ of the type used in data storage, Swiss and US researchers have found. Heike Riel of IBM’s research labs in Zurich says this is ‘a step along the way’ to making nanoscale electronic components a [...]

Aug

8

Discovery MythBusters on Diet Coke / Mentos Experiment

August 8, 2006 | 17 Comments

Mythbusters and exploding Coke. ‘The viral video Web site YouTube.com is full of video that show people dropping mint Mentos candies into bottles of Diet Coke and watching the immediate shooting geyser that results. Sure, it’s fun to do and cool to see, but there has to be some science behind it. Enter Discovery Channel’s [...]

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