Jurassic park

It is far from the focus of this blog, but the headline is remarkable.

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.

The technology is nowhere near perfect yet, and the first specimen they tried to clone “newborn ibex kid died […]

Re: How to pronounce Angewandte, Makromolekulare and Chemie

Andrew asked the question:

How to pronounce Angewandte, Makromolekulare and Chemie, PLEASE?

Here’s the sound files. Any further questions?

angewandte makromolekulare chemie

A very cool mirror

Just a quick link about an upcoming article in Physical Review Letters (btw. does this journal’s name sound like an oxymoron to you as well?). The scientists of the LIGO have managed to cool down a dime sized mirror to a bit less than 1 Kelvin; all just by two simple laser irradiation procedures: optical […]

What’s behind the name of this blog?

Well, easy: if you have ever polymerized anything, you know what can happen. Charred residues, brownish and highly viscous remains. Sticky, tacky — insoluble or unprocessable. Characterization of soot or goo is better left to your labmate. Yeah, whatever

So we were talking about naming this blog after soot or goo. And we could […]