Collaborate Disseminate
With a seemingly endless list of shortages of basic items trotted across newsfeeds on a daily basis, you’d be pardoned for not noticing any one shortage in particular. But in …read more Continue reading Mining and Refining: Helium
Nanoparticles sound a bit like science fiction to minds of your average hacker — too esoteric and out of reach to be something we might get to work with in …read more Continue reading Growing Silver Nanoprisms With Light
For as long as I’ve been driving, I’ve been changing oil. Longer than that, actually — before I even got my license, I did a lot of the maintenance and …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: Synthetic Oil
Electric vehicles are slowly but surely snatching market share from their combustion-engined forbearers. However, range and charging speed remain major sticking points for customers, and are a prime selling point …read more Continue reading The State of Play In Solid State Batteries
When you think of high-throughput ptychographic cytometry (wait, you do think about high throughput ptychographic cytometry, right?) does it bring to mind something you can hack together from an old …read more Continue reading Blu-ray Microscope Uses Blood Cells As Lenses
The Japanese people love their salt, perhaps as much as Americans love their sugar high fructose corn syrup and caffeine. But none of these are particularly good for you. Although …read more Continue reading Electric Chopsticks Bring the Salt, Not the Pain
Crystals, at least those hawked by new-age practitioners for their healing or restorative powers, will probably get a well-deserved eye roll from most of the folks around here. That said, …read more Continue reading Turning Scrap Copper into Beautiful Copper Acetate Crystals
When you think of ethanol, you might think of it as a type of alcohol, not alcohol itself. However, in reality, it is the primary ingredient in adult beverages. Which …read more Continue reading Charge Your Apple With Apples
This particular story on researchers successfully making yeast-free pizza dough has been making the rounds. As usual with stories written from a scientific angle, it’s worth digging into the details …read more Continue reading Who Needs Yeast When You Have Lab Equipment?
[Ted Yapo] shared a method of easily and conveniently soldering to aluminum, which depends on a little prep work to end up only slightly more complex than soldering to copper. …read more Continue reading How to Solder To Aluminum, Easily