Conjuring Crystals
This is interesting. NASA scientists are examining a seemingly magical way to produce high-quality crystals. Perhaps a NASA laboratory is an unlikely setting for a magic show. Nevertheless, this is...
View ArticleFlexible nanomembranes
Workers at The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA have managed to release thin membranes of semiconductors from a substrate and transfer them to new surfaces.1 The freed membranes which are...
View ArticleSilicones contaminate fuel in Southern England
For the last few days there have been many reports of damage to car oxygen sensors in England’s south east. This seems to have been cause by faulty fuel supplied by some supermarker chains, including...
View ArticleOn the Spectrum of Elementary Silicon
A link to this article is here for historical interest. The paper is by Sir William Crookes and was published in 1914. It concerns efforts to record spectroscopic data of pure elemental silicon.1 One...
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