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Reflecting on Climate Change
A radical plan to curb global warming and apparently reverse climate change caused by our rampant burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution would involve simply covering large areas of the world’s deserts with reflective sheeting.
The idea is discussed in detail in the January issue of the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues and [...]
Reflecting on Climate Change
Leukemia Tweezers
The first 2009 issue of SpectroscopyNOW is now available:
Tweezing out leukemia spectra - US researchers have used laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) to help them characterize the effects of different chemical fixation procedures on the spectra of healthy cells and leukemia cells and to avoid the misinterpretation of data.
Crime and punishment - A truly interdisciplinary [...]
Leukemia Tweezers
Happy New Year
Best wishes from me, David Bradley, for the coming year. Thanks for all your support and comments in 2008 and let’s hope for even more exciting science, technology, and medical news in 2009
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
How Alternative Medicine Fails Us
I’m forever fending off the alternative medicine brigade who seem to clump around this website and email me all kinds of supposed miracle cures that will spell the end of all health ills. One herbal remedy I recently focused on is Rhodiola rosea, in which I critiqued a promotional email from a vested interest in [...]
How Alternative Medicine Fails Us
K Barry Sharpless Live
A recent live Webcast gave Professor K. Barry Sharpless, the 2001 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, the opportunity to explore the intricacies of scientific discovery and how it is that when observation is concerned, good luck favours only the prepared mind.
Neither the vidcheeo nor the sound quality are great…but you cannot have everything.
The organisers also [...]
K Barry Sharpless Live
New Year Science Books
If you’re New Year’s resolution is to read more books, then check out the latest additions to my bulging shelves, order them quickly on Amazon and you may just have them in time to fulfill that New Year’s resolution:
Experimental heart - a racy read set in the world of pipettors and gene splicing, a first [...]
New Year Science Books
Vote for Sciencebase
Sciencebase is currently #4 in the Shorty Awards science category, please check out the site and if you think it worthy give us your vote via the awards nomination page or on Twitter.
The Shorty Awards honour the world’s top Twitterers in a variety of categories.
Here’s what nominators have said about sciencebase so far:
“I want 2 [...]
Vote for Sciencebase
Sperm, Discharge, Heroin, and Alzheimers
Batteries are included (unfortunately) - A chemical cocktail of toxic gases is released when you burn alkaline batteries, according to the latest research from Spain. The investigating team highlights the issue with respect to municipal waste incineration, which is used as an alternative to landfill and suggests that recycling is perhaps the only environmentally viable [...]
Sperm, Discharge, Heroin, and Alzheimers
Alchemy Under the Spotlight
This week, The Alchemist is digging in the dirt to find out about the carbon cycle and climate change, taking his whisky (or is it whiskey) with or without water, and discovering how to juggle molecules, on the other hand. Also in biochemical news this week, the crystal structure of a plant hormone receptor is [...]
Alchemy Under the Spotlight
Rx Reviews Redux
A new(ish) website has launched that aims to provide unbiased patient-generated data on the benefits of 7000 prescription medications and their side-effects.
Rateadrug.com hopes to do for pharma products what dooyoo and ciao do for gadgets by bringing the crowd to the debate. Patients can anonymously rate and review any of the prescription drugs they take [...]
Rx Reviews Redux
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