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Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust

 

Delicious links March 16-18

Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal
Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy
Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis of social networking site has important implications for spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
7 steps to restore trust in science – Every journey begins with a single …

Periodic Table of Science Bloggers

 

UPDATE: I’ve now added a lot of science types to the Periodic Table of Science Bloggers. All those elements in bronze are now taken, those in gold are mine and equally taken. If you want to claim an element, let me have me your blog link, social media site, twitter page, or whatever, and tell me which element you are (your name or the blog’s name have to somehow fit interms of initial letters). Let’s …

Real chemistry at the periodic table party

 

UPDATE: Please let us know – which element are you?

Teaching chemistry has changed so much since my day. This classic Youtube clip highlights the way the elements might interact at a periodic table party. Carbon is popular with the hydrogens, the noble gases are the emo wallflowers, but it’s the fight that breaks out between potassium water that even had my teenage son laughing. Check out the chemistry, or lack thereof, between hydrogen and neon……


Physical, Chemical, Spectroscopic

In conjunction with Wiley's SpectroscopyNOW, David Bradley brings you the latest science news in the fields of MRI, NMR, IR, Raman and UV spectroscopy as well as chemical informatics, crystallography and other X-ray techniques. Physical science news is in conjunction with Intute where you can read more recent scientific discoveries in astronomy, chemistry, geology, materials science, physics. For straight chemistry news check out my twice-monthly Alchemist newsfeed on ChemWeb as well as Reactive Reports both covering all areas of chemical science, including organic, inorganic, physical, pharma, nano, environmental and biotech. New stories are linked from the main Sciencebase blog as soon as they're available on client sites.

David Bradley Science Writer

Sciencebase.com is the website of freelance science writer David Bradley BSc CChem MRSC. David has covered a wide range of subjects for many popular magazines, technical publications, websites, and elsewhere, including American Scientist, BioMedNet, ChemWeb, Nature, New Scientist, Popular Science, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Science, and SpectroscopyNOW. He is a member of the US National Association of Science Writers, the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry and the Association of British Science Writers. You can read his biography here or contact him by email, call him on +44 (0)1954 202218

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