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"chemistry"
The golden age of computational materials science gives me a disturbing feeling of déjà vu
I was a mere toddler in the early 1980s when they announced the “golden age of computational drug design”. Now I may have been a toddler, but I often hear stories about the impending golden age from misty-eyed veterans in the field.
Breaking Food Down
What is food? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry says “Something that nourishes, sustains, or supplies.” How beautiful. That statement captures much of the emotion and feeling surrounding food, yet it’s only part of the full definition.
Scary subject matter.
This being Hallowe’en, I felt like I should serve you something scary. But what? Verily, we’ve talked about some scary things here: Dangers to life and limb in academic chemistry labs, and the suggestion that lab safety is too expensive.
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Why Space Stinks [Video]
Parts of this supposed vast emptiness smell like rotten eggs or gunpowder.
Teaching chemistry while female: when my very existence was a problem.
Not quite 20 years ago, I was between graduate programs. I had earned my Ph.D in chemistry and filed my applications to seven Ph.D. programs in philosophy.
Pumpkin, hold the spice
Feel that chill in the air? Must be Fall, and with the change in seasons comes the latest food craze: pumpkin spice. Now, I’m hardly the first person to notice this.
Un método de cocción muy simple elimina el arsénico del arroz
Preparar el arroz en una cafetera puede reducir a la mitad los niveles de esta sustancia natural, pero tóxica.
How Risky, Really, Is That Chemical?
When you hear about a new finding regarding a risky chemical, consider these often unreported factors
How Does the Color of a Glass Bottle Affect the Beer Inside?
Light triggers chemical reactions that make beer taste like skunk spray and onions.
Human Antibodies Given Sharklike Armor to Fight Disease
Human therapeutic antibodies often break down. Now chemists have grafted on more rugged features, taken from sharks
Enthusiasm and promise at the ACS Dallas National Meeting
I am writing from the Dallas airport from where I am heading out back home after a fantastic national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
A New Chemical Recipe Raises Prospect of Inexpensive Fuel
Lab-made molecule can transform components of natural gas
Falsification and its discontents
One of the answers to Edge.org’s question “What scientific idea is ready for retirement”? is by physicist Sean Carroll. Carroll takes on an idea from the philosophy of science that’s usually considered a given: falsification.
Happy New Year – the blog retrospective
Last year, my New Year’s Resolution was to try for a child with my husband. As I’m currently typing while trying to entertain a three month old baby I think I can safely claim that as one of the most successful New Year’s Resolutions I’ve ever made.
A Crack Study? Never Again
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx.
Archeologists Revive an Alcoholic Beverage from the Aztec Era (In Spanish)
A craft brewer makes Mesoamerican fermented beverages based on ancient indigenous recipes
Bhopal at 30: Lessons Still Being Learned
In 1989, I was working as an at editor at IEEE Spectrum when I was assigned to write a feature on Bhopal. The thirtieth anniversary of that industrial disaster that killed thousands is tonight.
Life's Probability Problem
What do we even mean when we talk about the probability of life elsewhere in the cosmos?
Facing Poison Gas, 1915
Following the introduction of large-scale gas attacks, one idea to repel gas was to use fans to blow the gas away—a terrible idea, but until the invention of gas masks there was little else that worked anyway
