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Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A " Less Wrong
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1493+ words) INTRODUCING PLAN A " The folks who brought you AI 2027, a so far remarkably accurate set of predictions despite those predictions having seemed freak...
Blue LED lights help chemists build complex drug molecules
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (589+ words) In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly three-dimensional atomic structures because they may be more potent and selective inside the body, but the additional chemical steps needed to build…...
Ask Fuzzy: Does a dash of cold water make a cuppa cool more slowly?
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (466+ words) While Aristotle might have been a magnificent thinker, science was not his forte. How would he answer the question of whether adding a little cold water to a cup of tea would make it cool more slowly? The logic is…...
Outline Science - CARM
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (80+ words) Science outline, points to design, not chance: DNA's coded information, the universe's fine-tuning, and the Cambrian Explosion all testify to a Creator. #CARM #Apologetics #Christianity #Intelligent Design These are some of my notes on Science. They are not complete and…...
An electric car's "dead" battery may not have been as dead as it seemed, and Cornell University has just tested a method that allows up to 95% of its original capacity to be restored without damaging it
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (991+ words) Scientists have developed a method to restore "dead" EV batteries to up to 95% capacity without breaking them down. By Adrian Villellas " Editorial process A tired electric vehicle battery may not be as "dead" as it looks. Researchers have developed a…...
Friction turns carbon debris into diamond and graphene
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (85+ words) Nanowerk Friction turns carbon debris into diamond and graphene Friction between amorphous carbon surfaces transforms wear debris into diamond and graphene while maintaining exceptionally low resistance. - Ernst Meyer (University of Basel), 0000-0001-6385-3412 corresponding author Become a Spotlight guest author! Join our…...
Nobel-Winning U. S. Chemist Moving to China to Lead AI Inst
9+ hour, 53+ min ago (129+ words) Omar Yaghi, an immigrant to the United States who shared last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left his faculty post at the University of California, Berkeley, for one in China. .. Posted by qcp at 08: 30 AM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on…...
Scientists have developed membranes that could cut the cost of oil refining in half
4+ hour, 59+ min ago (241+ words) An international group of scientists has developed new crystalline membranes capable of significantly reducing energy consumption during crude oil processing. According to the study's findings, the new technology requires at least half as much energy as traditional distillation. The innovation…...
Materials science meets bluegrass: A day in the life
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (102+ words) From mechanical engineering at Clemson to graduate school at Virginia Tech, making a big transition isn't easy. Join Jason Birsic, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as he takes you through a packed day…...
In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named William Perkin was trying to synthesize quinine at home over Easter when a black residue in his flask yielded mauveine, the first commercially successful synthetic organic dye, and helped launch the modern chemical industry
10+ hour, 3+ min ago (1131+ words) The color mauve became a mass-market commodity because an 18-year-old chemistry student looked twice at the residue from a failed experiment. In 1856, William Henry Perkin was trying to synthesize quinine, an important treatment for malaria, when his work produced a…...