If you have done any baking at all, chances are you already have the first line of the recipe memorized: preheat oven to 350 degrees. Yes, it’s a fairly nice round number. Yes, it’s also pretty easy to turn the temperature knob to that setting (not too much twisting). And yes, if you have an oven with a digital setting there aren’t too many keypad buttons to push. But that’s not the reason 350 degrees seems to be cooking’s magic number. It’s the chemistry.
Chemistry
Scientists are making skin for robots
Duke researchers may have found the recipe for better safe fuel
Duke researchers may have found the recipe for better safe fuel
April 21, 2017
Natural gas may be much cleaner than coal, but it has some surprisingly filthy qualities.
One Man's Nobel Idea
Winning a Nobel Prize is definitely a life-changing experience. But the way Nobel laureates find out the good news is pretty unassuming.
Dr. Aziz Sancar’s experience is typical for a Nobel Prize recipient. Someone from Stockholm, Sweden, where the awards are announced, called him on the telephone. And since the awards are announced during the day in Sweden, it was the middle of the night in North Carolina.
Taking out the Nuclear Trash
UNC-Chapel Hill Solves 50-Year-Old Nuclear Waste Puzzle
April 22, 2016
The topic of nuclear power as an energy source is one that can stir up emotions. Some see it as a clean energy source for the future, which as more research and a few major discoveries have shown, provides potentially limitless greenhouse gas-free energy. Others see it as a danger, with the potential for large-scale disasters like the ones at Fukushima and Chernobyl, and the potential to create toxic, radioactive waste.
Silver Secret Weapon
Silver Secret Weapon
July 31, 2015
New Jobs for Dendrites
Dendrites, Microscopes and a Whole New Way to Look at the Brain
October 10, 2014
Ocean Acidification
Microbes in an Acidic Ocean
October 3, 2014
Finding Oxidation
UNC-TV Science: May 12, 2014
Finding Oxidation with Rings Ready to Burst
Slowing Cancers
UNC-TV Science: April 21, 2014
Cutting off Copper May Slow Several Cancers