“We showed that you could uncook the egg and then cook it again. We used mechanical energy to drive the proteins into the correct shape. I became really interested in how you transform things. How do you change chemicals and do it on a massive scale?” UCI [University of California, Irvine] News profiles Ig Nobel […]
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“Egg unboiling machine enables graphene battery development”
“Egg unboiling machine enables graphene battery development,” is the headline in Mining Weekly. The article itself says: The Australian researchers who successfully unboiled an egg are turning their attention to capturing the energy of graphene oxide to make a more efficient alternative to lithium-ion batteries. The Flinders University team in South Australia has partnered with Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, ASX-listed First […]
Ormond explains, TEDxly, how they learned to partially unboil an egg
Callum Ormond explains his part in figuring out how to partially un-boil an egg— an achievement that led to an Ig Nobel Prize. Here’s Ormond’s TEDx talk: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston[AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin […]
Colin Raston tells of Un-boiling an Egg, and the Ig Nobel Prize
Colin Raston tells how he and colleagues found a way to partially un-boil an egg, and of how this led to an Ig Nobel Prize, in this Flinders University video: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston [AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William […]
The egg cracked; they super-glued it; a bird hatched
The story of the cracked egg and the glue, as reported by the Indian Express on November 2, 2015: Cracked Egg Glued, and a Baby Rhea is Born! THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An egg cracks, gets fixed with a super glue and voila, it hatches. Sounds like the script of a super glue commercial? Well, it happened for […]
New Ig Nobel winner uses discovery to produce needed drugs
Four days after being awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry — for partially un-boiling an egg — Professor Colin Raston is being lauded for using his discovery to produce a widely needed drug that can henceforth, thanks to him, be produced cheaply and easily, practically anywhere. So says a September 28 press release from […]