Challenging natural products succumb to radical synthetic prowess, the Alchemist hears this week, while US researchers find a way to construct macroscopic crystals from tiny DNA…
A science blog with news and views from science writer David Bradley. Everything from astronomy to zoology by way of biomedicine, chemistry, and nanotechnology, as well as photos from his flickr account and tips from his blogging tips site.
It’s Friday, our kids have been back at school a week now, so with the ever-present prospect of a wet weekend ahead of us, how to distract them from Youtube and Facebook with some…
I had the hare-brained idea that because my Sciencebase.com science blog is getting fewer and fewer comments these days, that it might be worth my disabling that option altogether…
Tears and smiles bond secure mothers to baby – The sight of her baby’s smile or even its tears cause the reward centres in a mother’s brain to light up, according to an…
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Tracy Alloway is a psychologist at Sterling University, Scotland, interested in how working memory impacts life, apparently told the British Science Festival that using…
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will announce the 50 millionth registered chemical substance in its Registry, tomorrow (8th September).
According to the email I received from a CAS…
Pregnant pause for thought – The analytical cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, NMR spectroscopy, has revealed that a chemical compound found in unpasteurised food can be present…
Bloggers pretty much have to accept that scraper sites will steal their blog’s content without permission for their own ends. It happens all the time and if they don’t just ignore it, then it can…
A lot of wouldbe subscribers to the Sciencetext email feed are missing out on the latest and greatest headlines from the blog because they have not yet confirmed their email addres.
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Biofuels are not much better than fossil fuels in terms of the impact on atmospheric pollution levels and effects on climate change, according to Mark Jacobson professor of civil and…
