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Rubber Suits You Sir

Military personnel, chemical workers, and others could benefit from a new synthetic rubber material tailored with liquid crystals. The material might be used to make body suits to protect chemical-industry employees from skin exposure to toxic vapors and aerosols, as well as providing protection for military personnel and civilians in the event of a [...]

Spectroscopy now! September 1, 2010
These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood sample. Pocket spotted – Researchers [...]Spectroscopy now! […]
Spectroscopy now! September 1, 2010
These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood sample. Pocket spotted – Researchers [...]Spectroscopy now! […]
Chemicalize for WordPress August 26, 2010
Having recently bigged up the Chemicalize system that lets you view any web page or chunk of text containing chemical names with inline structures and links to property information generated on-the-fly, I thought I’d offer the Chemicalize team a little challenge via Alex Allardyce: to write a WordPress plugin so that I could Chemicalize […]

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