#chemistry

Chemical Mahjong was invented by a Chinese middle school chemistry teacher, and his students got hooked on it.

#china #chemistry #education

is there any chemist left here? or did everyone move over to Bluesky? #chemistry

Potato plants belong to the nightshade family (Solanaceae). The flowers & young tubers contain compounds called glycoalkaloids, which are poisonous The full grown tubers generally don’t contain enough to cause harm. I’d be long gone if they did. #biology #flowers #photo #food #chemistry #nature

#chemistry #art

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA -
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #MastoArt

Dark energy isn't what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471743-dark-energy-isnt-what-we-thought-and-that-may-transform-the-cosmos/

#physics #science #chemistry #biology #astronomy #neet #space #quantumphysics #engineering #physicsfun

Creating cool art by combining chemicals in a drop of water.

C: r/NaturesFuckingLit

#Nature #Art #Chemistry #Science

Then we got @compoundchem who also delivers #scientific #infographics about #chemistry and shows us how to serve information in layouts.

Graphs are one thing, but when you implement several elements together, then layout design is best option - if you can't do slides.

A bit more than byte sized infographics, but still informative and equally as important.

the Saruhashi Prize for Japanese women researchers for excellence in science & mentoring women scientists.

The story goes that her interest was sparked in science watching raindrops in primary school, wondering about the source of rain. Her parents believed in education, but she had to make a case to leave a secure insurance job at 21 to study #chemistry. Her family witnessed how women struggled to support themselves without husbands or fathers in wartime. 2/n

Chemistry: The Most Practical High School Subject

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=57

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#chemistry

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry #PlanetaryBoundaries

@LabPlot at the service of #science and #researchers!

@labplot@lemmy.kde.social @opensource @openscience @organic_chemistry @ChemistryViews

#LabPlot is a FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software.

We're pleased to know that #LabPlot was used to perform calculations in this recent study on robust access to furo-fused #heteropolycycles:

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/30/4/948

#Research #OpenScience #Chemistry #Biotechnology #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #DataViz #Data

the archives of the CHMINF-L mailing list go back to 1991 and is an absolute treasure trove of history of #cheminformatics tho perhaps a bit ACS biased: https://list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/chminf-l/

#chemistry #history

This #BlackHistoryMonth let’s celebrate trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She published original research establishing that “no bases other than adenine,

#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #HeartDisease #sciArt

Paper: "Towards interoperable and reproducible QSAR analyses: Exchange of datasets" https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-2-5

"We present a step towards standardizing QSAR analyses by defining interoperable and reproducible QSAR datasets, consisting of an open XML format (QSAR-ML) which builds on an open and extensible descriptor ontology. [..] Hence, a dataset described by QSAR-ML makes its setup completely reproducible."

(Oops, sorry, that paper was from 2010)

#openscience #chemistry

Aluminium or aluminum?

The original coiner, Sir Humphry Davy, figured "aluminum" was good. His UK chemist colleagues, US chemists and the international chemist community liked "aluminium" better.

But Webster liked "aluminum" better, so here we are.

gabrian.com/aluminum-or-alumin…

#aluminum #aluminium
#etymology #chemistry #physics

What made Stradivari’s violins extraordinary? Discover the chemistry behind his legendary craftsmanship: https://doi.org/10.1002/chemv.201200076

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #everydaychemistry #Stradivari

Animals need cobalt for our metabolism; we get it as vitamin B12. So, for #printerSolstice2425 prompt cobalt I made a #linocut of English chemist & x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot, 1910-1994), who won the Nobel Prize in #chemistry for her models of biomolecules like vitamin B12, penicillin & insulin, which were essential to structural biology. My portrait includes her own data of electron densities & model for Vitamin

#womenInSTEM #histsci #sciart #MastoArt

@gerrymcgovern What #Brazil needs is a 21st century inventive #chemistry undergrad to use highly selective host-guest supramolecular chemistry to efficiently ‘fish’ abundant gold ions out of the oceans, like Charles Martin Hall used the #electrochemistry he learned at Oberlin College to recover aluminum (then more expensive than gold) from dirt-cheap and abundant bauxite in the 19th century. https://todayinsci.com/H/Hall_Charles/WorldsWork-Aluminum.htm

A magnífico Photography composition of the Cosmos superbly captured

NGC 6914 complex

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180830.html

#NASA #space #Cosmos #Photography #Physics #Chemistry