6. October 2011

Bench or Bedside? A Conversation with Ferid Murad

Camelia-Lucia Cimpianu, an early-career scientist who attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Germany, is trying to decide between a career as a researcher or a practising doctor.In this film, she seeks advice from Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad who faced the same dilemma as a medical ...

Source: Scientific American

4. October 2011

Best of Nature Network, NPG staff blogs and Scitable: 24 – 30 September

Faster than the speed of light?Do you want to know what scientists really think about neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light? A must for this week is to check out the Nature News Podcast. You can also find out how to measure happiness, how food puts flies in the mood ...

Source: Of Schemes and Memes

4. October 2011

Best of Nature Network, NPG staff blogs and Scitable: 9 – 23 Sept

Storify crazy Over the last two weeks here on "Of Schemes and Memes, we have been beavering away crafting Storify storyboards, collating the tops tweets from two of the major events the nature.com Communities team are involved with organising. On Tuesday 20th, we hosted the fifth installme...

Source: Of Schemes and Memes

28. September 2011

Best of Nature Network, NPG staff blogs and Scitable: 9 – 23 Sept

Storify crazy Over the last two weeks here on "Of Schemes and Memes, we have been beavering away crafting Storify storyboards, collating the tops tweets from two of the major events the nature.com Communities team are involved with organising. On Tuesday 20th, we hosted the fifth installme...

Source: Of Schemes and Memes

23. September 2011

Überlichtschnelle Neutrinos?

Meinem persönlichen Eindruck nach ist die fundamentale Teilchenphysik in den letzten Jahren eher weniger aufregend gewesen. Das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik ist nach wie vor ein nicht besonders schönes Gebilde, und mir war schon vor einem Jahr als Blogger beim Lindauer Nobelpreistr&a...

Source: Scilogs

23. September 2011

Combating Cancer with Edmond Fischer

Nobel Laureate Eddie Fischer was born in Shanghai in 1920. Since then, China has emerged as an economic superpower. Now it’s becoming a scientific heavyweight too. Tong Qing belongs to the newest generation of Chinese scientists. She decided to study cancer after a family friend became ill...

Source: Scientific American

23. September 2011

Second Nature Video with Edmond Fischer about combating cancer

In the next video of the Nature video team in cooperation with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Nobel laureate Eddi Fischer talks to a young researcher from China, Tong Qing, about ways to combat cancer. ...

Source: Scilogs.eu

22. September 2011

Elektromobilität: Forschen nach neuen Batteriematerialien (Teil I)

Bei dem Ziel, Energie und Ressourcen zu sparen, sind alternative Antriebe hoch im Kurs (siehe auch Energiequellen der Zukunft), allen voran die Elektromobilität. Knackpunkt ist und bleibt die Batterie, die Forschungsschwerpunkt der Elektrochemie ist. Als eines der wenigen Chemieunternehmen hat...

Source: Scilogs

22. September 2011

Proteopedia – 3D Strukturbiologie für alle [WeiterGen]

Wie wirkt Tamiflu gegen Grippe? Wie sieht ein fluoreszierendes Protein eigentlich aus? Die Proteopedia ist die Wikipedia der Strukturbiologen. In einer zentralen Datenbank hinterlegte Proteinstrukturen werden dort aufbereitet und mit Hilfe von 3D-Animationen und ausführlichen Erklärungen zugängl...

Source: ScienceBlogs

20. September 2011

Nature Videos from this year’s Lindau meeting

One of the unique aspects of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings is the opportunity for young scientists and Laureates to spend time in dialogue away from the press and attendees. These personal mentoring sessions are at the nucleus of the Lindau experience, where young scientific minds can ...

Source: Of Schemes and Memes
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