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Berkeley Lab researchers and their colleagues extend electron spin in diamond for incredibly tiny magnetic detectors.
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By Michael Torrice University of California, Los Angeles, chemistry professor Patrick Harran was arraigned today on four felony charges of violating the state labor code. A Los Angeles County judge entered a not guilty plea on Harran’s behalf for all four counts. The charges stem from the death of research assistant Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji from [...]Related Posts:Another court delay for UCLA and Patrick Harran in…UCLA, Harran arraignment in Sheri Sangji case again delayedUCLA, Harran
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Researchers have created a new tool to detect flaws in lithium-ion batteries as they are being manufactured, a step toward reducing defects and inconsistencies in the thickness of electrodes that affect battery life and reliability.
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Like jet-setting celebrities with homes in more than one location, some pathogenic strains of E. coli make two different places in the human body their homes. In a paper just out in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers describe how recurrent urinary tract infections in women may be caused by E. coli strains that can […]
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C&EN was advertising this auction for an old Rochester, NY photochemical plant's equipment earlier this week in its banner ads. It's not like they were long for this world, what with digital photography being what it is. But it's still sad to me, I dunno why.
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Here's a hypothetical question that I get a lot, that I don't have an answer to:Hey, CJ: I'm a [insert here: junior undergraduate/new B.S. chemist/experienced Ph.D. chemist] and I'd like to get some of that sweet, sweet fracking cash and become a chemical engineer. How can I go back to school for this? Love, a readerI honestly have no idea, even though I know some people who have gone this route. It seems to me that most of it requires some remedial undergraduate level
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Silly samplings from this week’s science news, compiled by Sophia Cai, Bethany Halford, and Jeff Huber. Kids these days do some pretty wild stuff. This New Jersey teen built his own submarine. [NJ.com] Approximately 78,000 people have paid money to apply to be one of the first four settlers on Mars. And for those who [...]
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William Banholzer and a group of other high-level chemical corporation executives wrote a letter in this week's C&EN, where they really took academic chemical safety to task* ** -- and used an interesting metric to do it:The facts are unequivocal. Occupational Safety & Health Administration statistics demonstrate that researchers are 11 times more likely to get hurt in an academic lab than in an industrial lab. There have been serious accidents in academic labs in recent
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown that some atomic nuclei can assume the shape of a pear which contributes to our understanding of nuclear structure and the underlying fundamental interactions.
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A few weeks back, the Atlantic ran a story provocatively entitled ""What if We Never Run Out of Oil?". The long and short of the 11,000 word article is that methane hydrates (ice crystals of methane and water that form under high pressure) litter the coastal ocean floors, and if the technology could be developed to recover them, we could see a future of abundant energy. (i.e., retrieve the icy-solid hydrates, bring them to the surface and you have methane gas separating itself from the water […]
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Good morning! Between May 7 and May 8, there were 21 new positions posted on the C&EN Jobs site. Of these, 4 (19%) are academically connected and 8 (38%) were from Kelly Scientific Resources.Toronto, Canada: This is a classic example, in my opinion, of the bogosity of some industrial postdoctoral positions. From Encycle Therapeutics:Post-Doctoral Scientist The position is centered in synthetic organic chemistry with an emphasis on peptide chemistry; research will be carried out on
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New super fiber is 'spun' out of three Virginia Peninsula Labs.
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Science doesn’t always look like this: Sometimes it looks like this! We have scientists in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and even Washington! Every week we get together for a videoconference to coordinate all the different kinds of research happening here at the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Above is a series of screenshots Franz Geiger took during [...]
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Nanopores are an exciting class of single molecule nanosensors. For several years now, nanopore technology has been developed as a biosensor at the single-molecule resolution to detect an array of biomedical molecules, such as DNA, RNA, protein, biotoxin, and various nanopore projects have been funded to develop the next generation of DNA sequencing technology. The sensing principle is based on the resistive pulse technique - molecules are detected as they pass through a single nanopore since […]
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Hiden Analytical issue a new catalogue describing their mass spectrometer systems and microreactors for control and monitoring of diverse gas-related thermal processes.
