My favourite scripting language is Python and there are quite few interesting projects done:
PyMol - molecular visualization system on an open source foundation
MMTK is an Open Source program library for molecular simulation applications.
PyQuante is an open-source suite of programs for developing quantum chemistry methods.
cclib is an open source ...
Lately there wasn't much things to write about.
When you scale your business, there are plenty of lessons and observations. But theren't that much you'd really like to tell the world about, and even less you can because of various NDA and confidentiality issues.
Nevertheless, looks finally (knock-knock-knock) 42 Coffee Cups ...
Image via WikipediaBreakthrough for carbon nanotube materials
as reported in today’s edition of the prestigious international scientific journal, Science – the UTD/CSIRO team recently demonstrated that synthetically made carbon nanotubes can be commercially manufactured into transparent sheets that are stronger than steel sheets of the same weight.
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Starting from chemically grown, self-assembled ...
Enrico Fermi researchers have made simple cells comprising a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes.
The Italian team's advance is to make simple cells which are essentially bags made up of a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes - microscopic components common to all cells ...
Andrew Leonard in his Salon article mocks science publishers that began PR and lobbying campaign to strain free access to publications resulted from (US) government-funded research (that's nearly all fundamental research, as far as I understand). In particular they stated in their press release:
Policies are being proposed that threaten to ...
Robert Roy Britt at LiveScience writes:
The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.
There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, [researcher] Lawrence Rudnick [of ...
