Naked Scientists 12.12.02 – Protecting Our Oceans
How should we protect marine ecosystems? We examine the science behind Marine Protected Areas and find out how a new plan could protect the oceans around England. In the news, the sub-zero bacterial...
View ArticleChemistry International, “JCAMP-DX for circular dichroism spectra and...
Benjamin Woollett, et al. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2012 Vol. 84, No. 10, pp. 2171-2182 Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a widely used technique for the characterization of proteins. A number...
View ArticleTell Your Carbon Footprint To Take A Hike! (Trevor Mcgee)
Nowadays we are always being reminded of the damage that we have done to Mother Earth. It may be too late for us to make any difference, but we should try our best. Source: Artipot: Science and...
View ArticleWhy Is the Sky Blue, Not Violet?
On a clear, sunny day the sky above us looks pale blue. Why is this so? Why is the night sky black, yet the sky during the day is blue? Source: Reference-and-Education:Science Articles from...
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The Gate: Contemplating the secret portal that led to the atomic bomb
There it was, completely nondescript. Nobody could ever tell what the room was used for more than half a century ago. But then I thought that that sounded apt; after all, nobody was supposed to know in...
View ArticlePascal’s Tetrahedron
An interesting extension of the ideas from Pascal’s triangle can be found in Pascal’s tetrahedron, a three-dimensional version of Pascal’s triangle. In this article, I explain how Pascal’s tetrahedron...
View ArticleThe City of Tomorrow Exists Today—in South Korea
Twenty miles west of 2000-year-old Seoul, South Korea, lies a brand-new city built on algorithms and LEED certifications. Already populated by more than 25,000 people and set to be completed by 2015,...
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Animal Care Ethics in Citizen Science: My Conundrum
Several recent blog posts and a session at Scio13 (discussed here) have addressed ethical issues in citizen science. Ethics in research is taken extremely seriously in academia: every single research...
View ArticleThe Role of Mobile Apps in the Entertainment Industry
Entertainment is the requirement of all age groups and every section of the society. Similarly, smartphones and mobile apps are also two aspects of technology which are almost omnipresent today....
View ArticleOur Solar System
The Earth, our home, is the only planet in the Solar System where life is possible. This is due to its favorable temperature. It was first Aristotle and later Copernicus, who declared that Earth is a...
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