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David Bradley 3 days ago
A wide range of stories again in this week’s Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com Absolute configurations reveal themselves through NMR spectroscopy using residual dipolar couplings in small molecules, according to an international team who have put it to work on an anticancer compound. Discussed also in more detail on SpectroscopyNOW.com A failed antidepressant could be marketed as a [...] Absolute chemical headlines is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
David Bradley 4 days ago
According to the promoters of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London aimed at UK Scientific Heritage: “Scientists are no longer unrecognisable boffins” thanks to the Science in Focus exhibition, which runs until 17 January 2010. Well…I take issue with that remark! Which of the following faces do you recognise? I suspect that most [...] Recognisable scientists versus artists is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
David Bradley 11 days ago
A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found that infinitely diluted solutions of spurious ingredients have any more beneficial effect on a [...] Homeopathy really doesn’t work is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
David Bradley 13 days ago
Time to bring you up to date on the latest science headlines I’ve put together for other sites this last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick round-up: On the SpectroscopyNOW site, this issue, I covered natural chemicals that can help sunflowers soak up toxic cadmium from the soil (another example of the phytoremediation process I [...] Latest science headlines is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
David Bradley 17 days ago
The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, remediation would be powered by a renewable energy supply, there would be no solid [...] Genetically engineered heavy metal fans is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
