Mar 1, 2010

Time-keeping alchemy

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Time-keeping with quantum mechanics caught The Alchemist’s eye this week with a truly long-term view while secret writing that uses a mix of sunscreen and boron could lead to new scratch and read products.

Ionic liquids hold much promise in gas chromatography of biofuels, we learn, and a lethal combination of anticancer drug and protein inhibitors offers a new, effective approach to ovarian and breast cancers.

Chemists in China have boiled …

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Feb 27, 2010

Four ways to connect with Sciencebase

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Simply click one of the four icons above to get to the Sciencebase Facebook, Delicious, RSS, and Twitter pages for far too much science and tech than even I know what to do with…

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Feb 25, 2010

Royal stamps for Royal Society

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Royal Mail Stamps has issued a commemorative set of stamps in the UK to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society this year. The stamps feature ten of the most prominent fellows of the Royal Society:

Robert Boyle – Chemistry
Sir Isaac Newton – Optics
Benjamin Franklin – Electricity
Edward Jenner – Vaccination
Charles Babbage – Computing
Alfred Russel Wallace – Evolution
Sir Joseph Lister – Antiseptic Surgery
Ernest Rutherford – Atomic Structure
Dorothy Hodgkin – Crystallography
Sir Nicholas Shackleton – Earth Science…

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