No, not those kind of tubes :-p

I never was very good with chemistry, but this still sounds pretty neat.

Proud member of the 10 percent club.

I'll be going to my first Dragon Con this year, and I'll definitely be attending some of these events.

Any increase in fuel efficiency would be a good thing.

Bunch found that a single sheet of graphene, a form of carbon atoms in a plane just one atom thick, can be isolated and used as an electromechanical resonator. The material could be useful for weighing atoms and molecules, which have extremely small masses; as a membrane to separate gases or to measure pressure; or for other experiments that call ( Read more... )

It's not hypocrisy, it's "separating the different paradigms".

A paleontologist who is also a young earth creationist . . . who believes that the earth is at most 10,000 years old. Hoookay.

"The study, which appears in the current issue of Learning and Memory, identified a molecule that is crucially involved in learning and singled out the signaling pathway through which it affects memory."

They've identified a receptor molecule in the hippocampus that is associated with long-term potentiation, strengthening the theory that LTP is ( Read more... )

"The research represents the first time that depression has been eliminated genetically in any organism, said Guy Debonnel, a psychiatrist and professor at McGill University."This raises a couple of questions . . . if depression can be controlled through genetic manipulation, through the suppression of a specific gene, then I wonder what ( Read more... )

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, enabling it to hide even actively radiating objects like a flashlight or cell phone.Right now it is effective for a limited range of wavelengths, but I'm ( Read more... )