Have a listen to this month’s Chemistry World podcast to hear Mike, Nina and Matt talking about edible chemistry, turning carbon dioxide into plastic and deciphering the structure of molecules just by looking at them (with an atomic force microscope, that is).
We’ve also got interviews with Yale University’s Allison Carey on how mosquitoes sniff out [...]
The Gold Hill mining district northwest of Boulder, Colorado, is dotted with many signs of mining activity from an earlier time. This district is adjacent to the towns of Ward and Nederland and situated in the northeastern extreme of the Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB). The first significant gold lode discovery of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush [...]
My morning commute through the countryside takes me past more than a few fields of sunflowers. By late July the flowers are out and without exception, all nodding toward the east where a star appears every day. Many of the local farmers have taken to raising sunflowers rather than the usual corn and sugar beets. I haven’t [...]
Every once in a while fate brings you to a location that you’ve lived by, but have never visited. We had the occasion to visit a local ranch that markets itself as a working ranch and event center. The ranch, which will go unnamed, sits in the Little Thompson River valley along the Colorado Front Range. [...]