Fresh Wallaby Juice

Busy week… it’s now about four and a half months (and counting) until I defend, and I’ve finally gotten my experiment working. (Mostly, anyway.) My advisor’s out of town this weekend though, having pushed me all week for a couple figures’ worth of new data to show off. After about 50 hours [...]

It’s always nice when the much-needed proof of evolution turns out to be both beautiful and so simple that even a chemist can understand it.

I may never need an original research project again, thanks to Seventh Sanctum:
* Electrolyte Luminosaturation
* Electrostatic Schizosolution
* Galvanized Neutralization
* Hard Water Activation
* Hard Water Saturation
* Ionic Crystalization
* Ionic Necrostablization
* Irradiated Pyrorepulsion
* Photochemical Crystosaturation
* Solution Luminobuffer

The rich die differently from you and me, but “‘Regardless of wealth, older Americans carry an unacceptable burden of suffering in their last year of life,’ said Maria Silveira, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, a research scientist at the U-M and the lead author of the study.”
Why, “fatigue was the [...]

“Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture” — Nature Materials (online July 17 2005, doi:10.1038/nmat1428)
(Technical stuff in the full article…)

… critics suggest that some reviewers might be unqualified and others are biased due to personal or professional rivalries.
http://www.scienceboard.net/community/news/news.263.html
Now that’s a surprise.