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more about #chemistry more comments → Roklimber: No offense, but you folks are way behind on some news... I posted a tip about this here on io9 back a full 2 weeks. more » TotalFanGirl: First, this made me think of the little flashy things from MiB. Second, rather than helpful medical applications I thought of the possible military a... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: There already are light activated medicines: [en.wikipedia.org] There are also medicines which increse sensitivty to sunlight and risk of sunburn. more » Perhaps Not: I wish my cat had a pause button like this. more » ManchuCandidate: Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche, a nematode in the night Madman nerdboys nerdgirls, Labcoats in the laboratory with a box full of micro... more » Cash907Censored: I guess you didn't read the story about the first woman to win a Nobel in economics, given your headline. more » TheGreenRanger: American, British...it doesn't mean anything. That doesn't describe who a person is. Well, nationalities do mean something, but I'm just trying to poi... more » Chip Overclock: This says something interesting about corporate funding for research as well. Two of the Physics winners this year are former Bell Labs researchers. T... more » Post-Nuked: The government won't give more funding to necessary research for the same reason that we can't fund public health care- some old white Republican will... more » disatess: Obama winning that complete BS !!! You must do something before earning such an award . more » Adam Grant: The NIH funds some absolutely amazing research, and I hope with continued Obama support they'll be able to start in on things that just were not possi... more » SpammerOvTheGods: 21-glowstick salute! #@! more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: Party time? more » VoxExMachina: Oh, Annalee, that's ridiculous. You know that the world's supply of wasponium was decimated in the Great Aphid Invasion of '26. A giant beetle, on t... more » Quilt: Broccoli is killing our Earth. more » -
#madscience
Paralyzed By Light
Just one beam of ultra-violet light left this nematode worm completely paralyzed. A second beam of visible-spectrum light allowed it to move again. That's right - scientists have created behavioral "light switches," a way to control animals with light. More » -
#nobelprizes
Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
It's not just President Obama who brought Nobel glory to the United States this week - Americans also won the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, proving the need for government funding for research, say US scientists. More » -
#madgeoscience
Nitrous Oxide Is Destroying the Earth
Sure whipits are fun, but now nitrous is destroying a lot more than your brain cells. A study published today in Science proves it is the leading cause of ozone layer destruction in the twenty-first century.
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#madchemistry
Scientists Create Fuel "More Dense Than The Core of the Sun"
It could be the perfect nuclear fuel. It generates energy via laser-enabled fusion. It has no radioactive byproducts. Has a group of Swedish researchers found the ultimate form of renewable energy for the 21st century? More » -
#bookreview
A History of Uranium, the Rock That Nuked the World
Uranium was considered a useless material until very recently in human history, when it quite literally exploded into the public consciousness. Tom Zoellner's engaging new book Uranium reveals how this once-humble element transformed human civilization.
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#madphysics
Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory
This crazy machine is a new kind of microscope that can identify a chemical based on just a few atoms. Awesomely, it sucks up intense X-ray beams from a synchrotron to do it. More » -
#coolscience
So You'd Like To Be An Explosion Scientist
Explosions aren't just for padding out Michael Bay movies. They are also crucial to the production of industrial materials, keeping medical supplies safe during shipping, and even to the future of treating heart disease.
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#crimesofthefuture
Teen with Home Chemistry Lab Arrested for Meth, Bombs
A Canadian college student majoring in chemistry built himself a home lab - and discovered that trying to do science in your own home quickly leads to accusations of drug-making and terrorism. -
#evolution
Princeton Scientists Discover Proteins that Control Evolution
Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works. In fact, their discovery could revolutionize the way we understand evolutionary processes. They have evidence that organisms actually have the ability to control their own evolution. More » -
#madscience
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Transgenic, Glowing Animals
Today the Nobel Prize committee announced the Nobel in chemistry would go to a group of US and Japanese researchers who discovered the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in jellyfish and transformed it into one of the most powerful research tools in genomics. Although GFP can make glowing kitties (above), glowing bunnies, glowing monkeys and mice (below), it has far more important applications for medical research. The eye-catching protein is used as a visual tag, linked to other genes or cells that scientists are tinkering with. As a result, scientists can literally see the results of their experiments. Now you can too. More » -
#megageochemistry
Ice Eruptions
They may look like space stations floating in vacuum, but these are actually delicate ice bubbles that formed in Ontario's Cranberry Lake. Michael Runtz took this picture of the segmented shapes created when pockets of air slowly bubble up from the bottom of the lake and get trapped in the freezing water as they move. Want to see what happens when giant ice structures are sculpted by wind? More »
