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Internet Scout Project

March 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment

One of the main goals of the Internet Scout Project, located at the University of Wisconsin, is to provide educators, students, researchers and librarians with fast, convenient ways of staying informed about the most valuable online resources. This project produces four reports, each one with a selection of great quality annotated online resources. These reports […]

Mar

29

Quick Picks (from my Aggregator)

March 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

For those who are not regular readers of my Quick Picks here is a sample of what you have been missing…
“Hottest” Researchers
Euroscience Open Forum 2006
Rebooting DNA
Nanotech: The Tiny Science Is Big, and Getting Bigger
New Fingerprint Detection Technology Developed

Mar

29

Bio-Rad KnowItAll Academic Edition

March 29, 2005 | 1 Comment

Bio-Rad is offering the KnowItAll Academic Edition software absolutely free to the academic community. With this software package, you can draw structures, perform IR and Raman functional group analysis, and generate high-quality reports. Direct link to download (after registration).

Mar

29

A kilogram is a kilogram. Well, may be not…

March 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

According to the article New look for the kilogram, published on PhysicsWeb, researchers from University of Reading and NIST have proposed new methods to define kilogram, based on fundamental constants. The kilogram, one of the seven International System of Units (SI) base units (the only which is still defined by a material artefact) is defined […]

Mar

28

Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties

March 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Another very interesting promotion from Knovel : Yaws’ Handbook of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties has unlimited access until April 6th. [via K-News]

Mar

28

CAS Science Spotlight: The 2004 most requested

March 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

CAS Science Spotlight, already mentioned here, has been updated. The 4Q-2004 data as well as 2004 annual data have been added, except the most cited articles list. The author with the highest number of requested articles from CAS electronic services worldwide during 2004 was Stephen L. Buchwald of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The most requested […]

Mar

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13 things that do not make sense

March 21, 2005 | 1 Comment

13 things that do not make sense, published on New Scientist is a very interesting article about some observations that are not in accordance with current theories. My preferred are “Tetraneutrons” and “Not-so-constant constants”. It is worth reading. [via Slashdot]

Mar

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Knovel Critical Tables

March 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Two weeks of open access to Knovel Critical Tables. [via K-News]

Mar

12

New version of ChemSketch

March 12, 2005 | 2 Comments

ACD/Labs (Advanced Chemistry Development) has just released version 8 of ChemSketch. This software has a freeware version that can be used by students and teachers for academic purposes. Click here to download the freeware version (registration required).

Mar

11

Science Toys

March 11, 2005 | 1 Comment

Learn how to make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. Some examples: a plastic hydrogen bomb (!), building a hydrogen fuel cell, simple heat engines, a film can cannon, a metal that melts in hot water, a Bernoulli levitation ball, the […]

Mar

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Chemistry Resources for students and teachers

March 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Steve Marsden’s Chemistry Resources for students and teachers is a very interesting site, with materials like a periodic table, lectures, laboratory experiments, links for other sites, software or multimedia resources. This site can be useful not only for Chemistry students or teachers but also for those who have some interest in Chemistry. A must visit […]

Mar

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The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

March 4, 2005 | 1 Comment

Another interesting Project Gutenberg eBook: The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan.

Mar

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Interactive Periodic Table

March 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Following a commentary, I have discovered this interesting site whose main attraction is an excellent Flash periodic table. According to the author, it is fast, very full-featured, permitting special visualization in attribute graphs and most importantly in table colouring based on element attributes. Definitively, it is worth trying.