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Science Quick Picks

Science Quick Picks

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A chemist's selection of science news and resources.

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  • Open Access Directory (OAD)

    Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 13:04 in , open access, open-access, science, trends, wikis

    Press Release: Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of ...

  • Telegraph: Top Ten Greatest Experiments

    Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 17:54 in , inventions, science

    Top Ten Greatest Experiments. ‘George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world: A few years ago, while reading stories about superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions or quantum computers solving p...

  • Time on Cancer

    Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 15:47 in , health and science, health-and-science

    Time: Cancer. ‘While more people die of heart disease in the U.S. than cancer, cancer is still one of the most feared diagnoses a person can receive. There are good reasons for this. Cancer’s ability to cause pain is notorious and some of...

  • TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

    Posted on Tuesday January 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 in , images, nano, nanoscience

    Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the d...

  • Rules of Thumb Database

    Posted on Sunday January 20th, 2008 at 18:14 in , quick site of the day, quick-site-of-the-day

    Rules of Thumb.Org. ‘A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for in­stance, knows to plant his corn when oak...

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