Feb

28

Tabletop Fusion: NYT on Bubble Fusion (Sonofusion)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble?. ‘Brian Kappus, a physics graduate student at U.C.L.A., tipped the clear cylinder to trap some air bubbles in the clear liquid inside. He clamped the cylinder, upright, on a small turntable and set it spinning. With the flip of another switch, powerful up-and-down vibrations, 50 a second, started shaking [...]

Feb

28

European Research Council (ERC)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

European Research Council (ERC). ‘The European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research. The main aim of the newly-established body is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, engineers and scholars to be adventurous and take risks in their [...]

Feb

28

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Milestone for giant physics lab. ‘Construction on a giant underground laboratory that will help take physics into a new era is reaching a major milestone. At 0500 GMT, a crane began to lower 2,000 tonnes of machinery into a man-made cavern 100m below ground. The machinery is part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one [...]

Feb

26

The Move is Complete

February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

The move is now complete! After this I will be changing only “minor” details. Please let me know if you detect any errors or inconsistencies. Thanks. I will restart posting very soon.

Feb

23

Moving from TypePad to WordPress

February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In the last few days, I’ve been preparing the move of this blog from TypePad to WordPress. I hope everything will be OK soon, but expect some turbulence around here in the next few days. I will post again after setting everything up.

Feb

8

TORVS Services

February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

TORVS (Techniques for Organic Reactions, Visualization and Sprectroscopy) Services. ‘This collection of pages consists of demonstrators and research prototypes for Internet-based chemical information services. The unique feature common to them is that they are providing active contents. This means, they are not yet another collection of links or text pages but interfaces to computational and [...]

Feb

7

Article: Exploring e-Science: An Introduction

February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Exploring e-Science: An Introduction, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 10 (2007). Abstract: A number of terms are in vogue that describe the transformation of science through utilization of Grid computing, Internet-based instrumentation, and global collaboration. For the purposes of this special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, the term [...]

Feb

6

Quick Picks of the Past: February 2006 Selected Posts

February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

From Science Quick Picks Archives: February 2006
Science News:

Academic Job Market
Einstein Mozart Connection
Chemistry of Love
Love = Brain Chemistry
Resveratrol Again
Noradrenaline
Nanotubes Medical Applications
How to Lower Cholesterol
Aerogel
Better Than This? Impossible!…

Quick Site of the Day:

History of Chemistry in Photography
Are You Bored?
Inside e-Learning
More on Darwin
Odd Tourists
MadeHow.com – How Products Are Made
Medical Journals: Open Access

Feb

4

Arsenic Poisoning: The Solution and The Problem

February 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

National Academy of Engineering Announces Winners of $1 Million Challenge to Provide Safe Drinker Water. ‘The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the winners of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. The contest sought innovative solutions for removing arsenic from drinking water that is slowly poisoning tens of millions of people in developing [...]