Jan

22

TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) [...]

Jan

21

Rules of Thumb Database

January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Rules of Thumb.Org. ‘A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for in­stance, knows to plant his corn when oak leaves are the size of squirrels’ ears. An economics profes­sor knows [...]

Jan

20

On the Road to an Antitumor Vaccine

January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Tumor Vaccines. ‘The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody production. The results of this effort, led by Shinsaku Nakagawa, Ph.D., and Naoki Okada, Ph.D., of Osaka [...]

Jan

16

Scientific American on Science 2.0: An Experiment

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not.
‘Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in “networked journalism,” in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form.
The article is a particularly apt candidate [...]

Jan

16

Touch the Invisible Sky: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille

January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers. ‘At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
Touch the Invisible Sky is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies [...]

Jan

11

All About Richard Feynman

January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Feynman Online. ‘This web site is dedicated to Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster. But beyond all of that, Richard Feynman was a [...]

Jan

11

Journal Citation Impact Forum

January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evaluation.
‘Thomson Scientific announced on January 8 the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research [...]

Jan

7

International Year of Planet Earth

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe is expressed in the Year’s subtitle ‘Earth science [...]

Jan

4

Open Access in 2007 According to Peter Suber

January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Open Access in 2007 by Peter Suber on SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue 117, January 2008. From the introduction: “The irrepressible progress of the open access movement means that every new year is richer than the last. At some point the thicket of new developments will make it impossible to write these annual reviews. [...]

Jan

2

Scientific American: Top 25 Science Stories of 2007

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Top 25 Science Stories of 2007. ‘A year of discoveries, close calls, tragedies and triumphs in review.’

Jan

2

Online Seminar: Five Ages of the Universe

January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Five Ages of the Universe at Fathom (University of Michigan). ‘Travel through time from the moment of the “Big Bang,” before time and space separated, to a dark, starless universe over 10100 years from now when individual atoms can be larger than our galaxy.
University of Michigan physicist Fred Adams and NASA astronomer Greg Laughlin offer [...]