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In 2019, I reinstated our pond, well, a half-size version of the original that I filled when we moved to this house in the late ’90s with small children. The plants, water snails, and frogs thrived, it seems, the birds love it for a drink too, although, I did find a dead Goldfinch in there … Continue reading "Wilding our gardens"

Some of my early morning soap bubbles froze, but I didn’t get video of the action, just a couple of photos. But, here’s a soap bubble stubbornly not freezing on the lawn.

Orange-coloured gel has been made into artificial skin that can be 3D printed in any shape and detect human touch – one day it could help robots feel

An injection of egg-containing cells appears to rejuvenate the ovaries of mice, and could help restore fertility in women without surgery

There seems to be a genuine effort to put science at the heart of the UK’s government but this comes with risks as well as rewards

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I have just spent an hour or so, much to the amusement of Mrs_Sciencebase blowing soap bubbles and crawling around on the frost-covered lawn in the back garden with a camera loaded with a macro lens. The bubbles were made with washing up liquid and water and a couple of drops of glycerine (suggested by … Continue reading "Photographing soap bubbles on a frosty lawn"

Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes

Models and observations suggest that an earlier date for the upheaval can explain puzzles including a puny Mars

An analysis of thousands of song descriptions ties together music from different cultures

Chinese officials confirm that the coronavirus spreads between people, making it harder to control

Turning blue

Ania Sergeenko crystallized this colorful sample of potassium ferricyanide during her time as a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University. Her lab, led by Daniel Leznoff, often used it as a starting material to make the pigment Prussian blue. “In the Leznoff research lab, we prepared coordination polymers with similar composition and crystal structures to Prussian Blue … which could have applications in molecular storage, magnetism, or chemical sensing,” Sergeenko explains. Today... Читать дальше...

Cationic cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC) complexes for metathesis in protic media