Feb 28, 2007
The sixtieth issue of the “new” Alchemist is now online over on Sciencebase partner site ChemWeb.com. As you might expect having reached this tender age, we’ve put on a little weight, as of this issue there will be more chemistry matters.
In this week’s issue, new symbolism in the world of ionizing radiation, a rubber band theory that requires no stretch of the imagination to work, and an atomic …
Face recognition is the most obvious approach to identification but it suffers from a major drawback – shadows and bad lighting. If there is inconsistent lighting in a room or on a face then it becomes difficult to produce reproducible digital image of the face for face recognition algorithms to work with. Now, researchers in China have turned to near infra-red to help computers cope with variable lighting conditions and so …
Feb 26, 2007
Scientists sure know how to have fun, Iain “Beaker” Larmour and Lauren “Comical Flasks” Rutherford of QUB, in Norther Ireland, square up for the match of the century playing micro mechanical hockey on a super water repellent, a superhydrophobic, material, that makes a duck’s back look positively damp.
There is a serious objective to this work. Superhydrophobic materials have …
