The Phoenix Mars Lander is working as fast as it can to dig and deliver as many samples as possible before the power produced by Phoenix's solar panels declines due to the end of the Martian summer. This image, from Sol 107 (Sept. 12 here on Earth), shows the lander has delivered a sample of so...

Poly-flourinated borane clusters are the basis of the Stabilife salt. Air Products has received two US patents covering usage of its Stabilife fluorinated electrolyte salts for lithium-ion batteries. These salts have been formulated to stand up to the conditions expected from next-generation portabl...

As I have noted in previous posts on innovation, many of the most interesting ideas come from the edges of various disciplines, especially when those edges butt against the edges of other disciplines. Sometimes disciplines are deliberately brought together to produce the "Medici Effect" an...

Every good scientists knows not to assume it is water ice, but hitting a "hard white layer" just below the first few inches of soil on Mars is still great news. Even if it is a crusted salt layer, or a layer of salt coating water ice underneath, it is still cool to have unearthed (unmarsed...

O'Reilly's Make: Books launched a new series of books called DIY Science, and the first one is The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiements, by Robert Bruce Thompson. Here's the preface to the book, which I found very inspiring. Christmas morning, 1964. I was 11 years old. My younger brother...

Honed cylinder coating made from one of the materials (SUNA) under test. Click to enlarge. Ford Research Centre Aachen (Germany) is developing a thermally sprayed nano-coating using a Plasma Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) process that could replace the heavier cast iron liners that provide the necessar...

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ConocoPhillips; 2 positions Posting date : Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Expiry date : Tuesday, March 11, 2008 ConocoPhillips Employment Opportunities at ConocoPhillips. We have a job opening for immediate employment.  Corrosion Engineer Basic Purpose : The purpose of Sr. Corrosion Engineer role is to ...

Atheist-materialist Dr. Steven Novella is confident: all of our experiences and awareness arise from brain matter. There is no soul, no immaterial mind, separate from the brain itself. According to Dr. Novella, a neurologist at Yale, the debate is over, and all that is left to do is to eradicate a f...