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Mercury, Gallium, and Aluminum, oh my!

By Scott Michael Slone

By Scott Michael Slone, C2ST’s resident intern.

The internet is abuzz with all sorts of videos on cool, weird, and interesting chemical reactions. I felt these were unique enough to share with you all, and thus compiled several of them. So here you have it, three reactions and three videos!

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A Tiny Battery with a Huge Spark

By Scott Michael Slone

Greetings fellow members of C2ST, this article is by Scott Michael Slone, C2ST’s resident intern.

There has been a rapid surge in technological progress in recent years, especially miniaturized devices. These include medical implants, flying robots that mimic insects, as well as tiny microphones and cameras that can fit, say, on a pair of glasses or jewelry. It seems with all of this rapid progress that there is no end to our expansion. However, there is one issue that has been plaguing these devices: the power source. Continue reading “A Tiny Battery with a Huge Spark”

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PLUG YOUR PEER REVIEWED PAPER

PLUG YOUR PEER REVIEWED PAPER is a new blog series where we recognize new members and donors by uploading their peer reviewed paper to our website.  Read here about a Magnetic Resonance Imaging research paper written by Robert A. Kleps et al., titled: A Sex-Specific Metabolite Identified in a Marine Invertebrate Utilizing Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

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Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World

Our quest to understand the origin, evolution and makeup of the Universe has undergone dramatic and surprising advances over the past two decades. Much of the progress in understanding the makeup of the Universe has been through observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Slight variations in the intensity of the CMB light provide a glimpse of the Universe as it was 14 billion years ago.

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An Interview with Conservation Scientist Dr. Francesca Casadio

Francesca Casadio PhD., joined the Art Institute of Chicago as its first A.W. Mellon Conservation Scientist in July 2003, filling a critical role in establishing and directing a conservation science program. Her primary activities focus on equipping an in-house laboratory with state-of-the-art instrumentation, and conducting analyses of works of art in the collections.

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