Chemistry
- Quantum Dots Versus Nanowires For The Future Of Solar Power
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Are you on Team Quantum Dots or Team Nanowires when the topic of future nanoscale energy-harvesting technology in solar panels comes up? ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2013 - 10:19pm
- Natural, Renewable Chemistry: Genetically Engineered E. Coli Produce Phenol
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We're better off if chemicals we use in everyday life are created from renewable resources using biotechnology - currently many of those chemicals are instead derived from fossil resources. ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 11:19am
- Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt And Arieh Warshel Get Nobel Prize In Chemistry
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". While today, chemical modeling is carried out in computers, in the ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 9:18am
- Foam Polymers Grown Directly From Gases
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Polymers are found in countless commercial, medical, and industrial products and the porous kind are known as foam polymers. Foam polymers are useful because they combine light weight with rigid mechanical properties and a group has developed a process to ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2013 - 7:14pm
- Science, Play And Research Kit (SPARK) Competition
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Dear Science 2.0 writers: Do any of you want to collaborate on developing a Science, Play and Research Kit (SPARK)? Here's the press release: ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Oct 18 2013 - 11:26am
- Science Play And Research Kit: K’nex Test Tube Rack
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In my previous article, I posted the press release for the Science Play and Research kit. There are 76 days left in the competition. I can only produce one article per week due to my work schedule thus I’d only be able to come up with a chemistry set with ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Oct 22 2013 - 1:22pm
- Science Play And Research Kit: Business Models, Packaging, And Marketing Part 1
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Click here and sign up to be a participant on ABC’s Shark Tank. You’re probably thinking “what does appearing on a TV show have to do with The Science Play and Research Kit?” Let’s put things into perspective: you’ve designed the perfect science kit, you’ ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Oct 28 2013 - 12:57pm
- Science Play And Research Kit: Business Models, Packaging, And Marketing Part 2
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In Part 2 of Science Play and Research Kit: Business Models, Packaging, and Marketing, we’ll discuss the Gillette Razor model. I’m sure you’ve heard of it: give the razor away and sell the blades. It would seem that this model is more myth than reality. Th ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Nov 2 2013 - 3:38am
- BPA Levels Are Too Low To Affect People- Unless It Takes Lower Doses Than Studies Show
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Bisphenol A (BPA) in high quantity can harm people, just like almost anything. BPA has been labeled a concern by some because of its ability to be an endocrine disruptor that hijacks the normal responses of hormones. While toxicology studies have shown t ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 12:36am
- All Aboard The Kinesin Nanotrain
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Tiny self-assembling transport networks, powered by nano-scale motors and controlled by DNA, have been developed. And the system can construct its own network of tracks spanning tens of micrometers in length, transport cargo across the network and even di ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 10:03am
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