Shock-absorbing woodpeckers, polluted perfume and telling lies
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about shock absorbing woodpeckers; polluted perfume; off-the-shelf blood vessels; telling lies; and more
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Galactic voting, lethal injections and nutritious bat dung…
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about galactic voting; what playing on-line games reveals about you; executions by lethal injection; plants that feed on bat dung; and more
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The caveman's kitchen, T.rex revelations, slowing wind and more. Tim on radio this week.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more…
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The caveman’s kitchen, T.rex revelations, slowing wind and more. Tim on radio this week.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more…
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Mopping up gases
Deanna D’Alessandro University of Sydney A sponge that filters hot air and captures carbon dioxide We need better ways of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power stations and industry. And we won’t be using hydrogen cars until we’ve develop…
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Eight for apples, 46 for muffins
What does food do – time to move beyond the glycaemic index It’s time to get smarter about food labelling according to Dr John Monro, speaking at the international chemistry conference in Melbourne this week. “We need to know not just what is in the food, but what the food is going to do in…
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Spinning the world clean
Prof Colin Raston and his colleagues in the Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication at the University of Western Australia are setting about cleaning up the world—and chemical industry in particular—through developing a suite of technologies to enable continuous, rather than batch, processing. “We’re working at getting rid of the round-bottom glass in the laboratory, and the…
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Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck
IUPAC Symposium 6B – Crop Biofactories: Plants as Sustainable Bio-Production Systems for Industrial Raw Materials, Wednesday 3:30pm Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Vegetable oil is the agricultural product that chemically most resembles fossil oils and has therefore great potential to replace it, says Sweden’s Sten Stymne. He’s part of an 11-million-Euro global project…
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Could your lawn, golf course or pasture make its own weedkiller?
IUPAC Symposium 4A – Natural Products, Tuesday 1:45PM – 3:00PM Leslie Weston, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Leslie Weston has discovered and patented two weedkillers made by plants. Now she’s investigating Patterson’s curse to see what tricks it uses to invade grasslands and repel herbivores. Her vision is to use plants or plant extracts to…
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New perfumes for bugs
IUPAC Symposium 4B – Natural Products, Tuesday 4pm John Pickett, Rothamsted Research John Pickett and his British colleagues are creating new kinds of perfumes or attractants for pest insects. They’re employing farnesyl diphosphate—the ‘parent’ molecule that insects use as the starting point for many chemical signals such as sex pheromones—to create new, more powerful attractants…