Category Archives: A detour from business as usual
Data-mining medieval text reveals medically bioactive ingredients
The Lylye of Medicynes is a 15th-century manuscript residing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. It is a Middle English translation of an earlier Latin treatise on disease, containing case studies and treatment recipes. It was an influential text thought to have originally belonged to Robert Broke, personal apothecary to the English monarch Henry…
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Sorry, graphene—borophene is the new wonder material that’s got everyone excited
Not so long ago, graphene was the great new wonder material. A super-strong, atom-thick sheet of carbon “chicken wire,” it can form tubes, balls, and other curious shapes. And because it conducts electricity, materials scientists raised the prospect of a new era of graphene-based computer processing and a lucrative graphene chip industry to boot. The…
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Il Metropolitan Museum apre il suo archivio a tutti: online 375mila immagini
Una ricca collezione di file, ora di pubblico dominio, delle opere esposte e custodite al Met, che abbraccia tutta la produzione artistica e artigianale della
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What Is Elegance in Science? – The New Yorker
Astrophysicists, art critics, biologists, and tennis fans seek to define the indefinable.