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World’s sweetest antibiotic? The five ways honey kills bacteria.
You’re at the doctors with a suspected infection, but instead of offering penicillin or erythromycin, they prescribe honey. Would you switch toast toppings? Take a honey pill? How about letting the...
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Apothecary bottles found in a collectibles shop
About a week ago I was in Gulgong, a small town in New South Wales near the wine region of Mudgee. The main road was spelled Mayne Road, and was brown stone rather than tarmac. Along the footpaths were...
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Science Lab Cookie Cutters
Nothing says nerdy and delicious like a set of science cookie cutters. You can buy a set here, the site is in America but they ship internationally. I think they’re pretty cool nerdy cool. On the...
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Noble Prize in Chemistry – Palladium catalysed reactions
Image adapted from Jurii The winners of this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, for their work in palladium catalysed reactions. Ah, a subject...
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OpenLab10 – best of the blogs for 2010
Last years edition of OpenLabQuick note and heads up to check out OpenLab10, which has published a list of some of the best blogging efforts from 2010. A good bunch in anyone’s book! From this epic...
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A Gingerbread Laboratory
Thought I’d share some pictures of this awesome gingerbread laboratory my dad made me for Christmas. It’s a science and research lab. Unfortunately some of the roof caved in during transit. The lab...
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ChemWiki, free textbook for University students
This week, thousands of Australians went back to Uni starting a new semester of study. For some, science is their bag and they’re picking up a chemistry class or two. I’ve been there, and they’ve got a...
View ArticleGummi bear explosion (and other experiments)
Enjoy what happens when a gummi bear is dropped into potassium chlorate. Cool. Why did I never do this in chem class when potassium chlorate was available to me? How does it work, I hear you ask? (And...
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Alcoholic art, crystals of liquor
So it’s appropriate that I’m a little bit tipsy while writing this. Alcohol under a microscope! That’s today’s post. BevShots take photographs of alcohol crystallized on a slide, shot under a polarized...
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Christmas chemistry, the science of holly
Chocolate orange icecream pudding with side of holly. Image by webminkGreen and red, classic Christmas colours, adorn the spiky holly shrub. A sprig may garnish puddings, but garnish nibblers like me...
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