If all hell breaks loose, so to speak, and you are fortunate to still be alive in a spot that is suddenly in a torrent of dangerous ionizing radiation, you can use any of several popular medicines to start to gauge the radiation level that you’re begin exposed to. That’s the theme of this new […]
Chemists, some of them, do pay attention to their fingernails. A team at the University of California, La Jolla (an institution that seems to exist on April 1, when it apparently migrates from San Diego), has paid special attention. Details are in their study: “A Wearable Fingernail Chemical Sensing Platform: pH Sensing at Your Fingertips,” Jayoung […]
There’s reported progress in the struggle to give baristas (and their bosses, and their boss’s vendors, too) more reliable info about the identities of their coffee beans. Details are in the study “Voltammetric Electronic Tongue and Support Vector Machines for Identification of Selected Features in Mexican Coffee,” by Rocio Berenice Domínguez, Laura Moreno-Barón, Roberto Muñoz, […]
Dr. Elena Bodnar, inventor of the brassiere that in an emergency can be converted in to a pair of protective face masks (for which she was awarded the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in public health) has enhanced her invention. This week Dr. Bodnar introduced the Rad Emergency Bra, which incorporates a radiation sensor: BONUS: Video […]
“U.S. scientists design smart underpants that could save lives“, says the headline on a June 9, 2010, Reuters report. (Thanks to investigator Randy Dotinga for bringing it to our attention.) Details: SAN DIEGO – A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men’s briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike […]