World’s Greatest Chemists: A Chronology Of Notable Achievements
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Democritus (465 BC)
First to conceive matter in the form of particles, which he called atoms.
Alchemists (about 1000-1650)
Attempted to (1) change lead and other base metals to gold; (2) discover a universal solvent; and (3) discover a life-prolonging elixir. Used plant products and arsenic compounds to treat diseases.
Boyle, Sir Robert (1637-1691)
Formulated fundamental gas laws. First to [...]
Earth seen from space: the massive Atlas
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The massif is divided into five channels that separate the Mediterranean climate zones in the north of the arid zone of the Sahara Desert to the south. Three of these channels are located in Morocco: High Atlas (covered with snow and visible in the lower left corner), the Middle Atlas (which appears as two spots [...]
Running with shoes is dangerous for health … Knee
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Preventing this condition is critical. Running, which is beneficial to health in general and the cardiovascular system in particular, has the drawbacks of increasing efforts on the joints of the leg. Researchers at the University of Virginia studied the stresses on the joint during running. Their surprising results show that running barefoot is best for [...]
The UWB project the “swarm” (swarm intelligence)
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The E-SWARM Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA-Faculty of Applied Sciences ULB) on the “swarm” ( “swarm intelligence“), a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals which exhibit collective behavior due to control decentralized and self-organization.
Google wants to become a retailer of electricity
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Last December, the Mountain View giant has created Google and Energy has filed an application with the U.S. Commission of regulation of the energy (FERC) to obtain the status of merchant energy ( both producer and trader). Thus, the firm would be free to sell and purchase the electricity at the best price.
Save Biodiversity
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In 2002, the Earth Summit in Johannesburg,
governments committed themselves to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. This
mission seems far from the account … It is time to act drastically.
Large missions, including the CNRS is the instigator or partner, are being
launched across the globe, including locations of “hot spots” in the Amazon,
Africa, Madagascar, in the [...]
Exhibitions as a method of survival in a crisis
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The economic situation has always been unpredictable. A year ago, who could say with a certain degree of clarity that the world will cover the economic crisis of epic proportions? But he came, and we must do everything possible both at the individual level and at the corporate level.
How can companies cope with the [...]
Discover dark flow
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I read in the always interesting blog Maikelnai surprising news, and still further complicates the understanding of our universe. If the terms dark matter, black hole or wormhole seem far away, a new concept is added to the list, the “dark flow.”I have discovered a group of astrophysicists from NASA and have defined a very [...]
Economists who have developed this research are interested in how to avoid war
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The transfer of resources, through trade, gifts or grants, for example, could prevent up to nine out of ten wars in some kind of war, according to a study by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).Economists who have developed this research are interested in how to avoid war when there is a [...]
Aspirin may have compounded the influenza pandemic of 1918
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The epidemic of influenza devastating 1918 by the similarity of viruses with the A (H1N1) by the pandemic now, remember our good memories. A new article suggests that the aspirin may partly explain the high number of deaths has caused what at the time. Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the article sounds like a warning.
In [...]
