This DNA isn’t on fire
How do you keep your T-shirts from lighting on fire? Roll around in some herring sperm DNA. That’s obviously not the intrinsic response; researchers at Italy’s Politecnico di Torino lab led […]
Category Archives: Chemistry
Take that, double helix
Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]
Chemistry is cool
Even amateur chemists can come up with some pretty brilliant ideas. Joe and Bob Switzer started developing what would be known as Day-Glo pigments after they graduated from UC Berkeley, […]
So, what exactly did Curiosity find?
In short, carbon. Specifically, chlorinated methane gas, which contains carbon. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument also found traces of water, sulfur, and perchlorate salts, but naturally the building blocks […]
Want more foam in your beer? There’s a gene for that
Some would argue that beer-making is an art (it certainly produces art in many instances), but brewers know there’s a definitely science at work as well. And now one more element […]
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