Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Polyelectrolytes 2008

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

The 7th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Polyelectrolytes 2008, will be held in Coimbra, Portugal in June 2008.
You can already bookmark the conference homepage.

Original post by jmgs

First SMARTER (Structure elucidation by coMbining mAgnetic Resonance, compuTation modEling and diffRactions

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

University of Aveiro, Portugal
6 and 7 September 2007
“The aim of the SMARTER meeting is to bring together specialists from the different areas of materials science, such as materials chemists and processing engineers, diffraction and spectroscopy scientists, and computational structuralists, that may contribute to the development of a common language for a SMARTER approach to […]

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Labs can be (scarcely) beautiful: photos by Rodrigo Brito

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Rodrigo Brito is an amateur photographer as well as a PhD student in Chemistry. Take a look at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodrigobrito/sets/72157594409729904/
to see some very nice (science related) pictures.

Original post by jmgs

The REAL environmental cost of an hybrid car

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Some days ago I eard on a TV show about cars that a hybrid car has a larger environmental cost than many other cars!! I found it really surprising so I tryied to look for some information about this topic. Well… hybrid cars may spend less fuel but that’s just a little […]

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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Monday, May 14th, 2007

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE
 8th Course: Biophysics and the Challenges of Emerging Threats
ERICE-SICILY: 19-30 JUNE 2007

“This course will provide an overview of biophysical and structural methods in biology. It will present technologies related to pathogen detection and treatment using these methods. Furthermore, it will teach basic principles and demonstrate concrete examples, […]

Original post by jmgs

Mirror Neurons

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Video from PBS: Nova : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/3204/i01.html
A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially conspecific) animal. Thus, the neuron “mirrors” the behavior of another animal, as though the observer were itself performing the action. These neurons have […]

Original post by filipefernandes

8ENCMP: 8º Encontro Nacional de Catálise e Materiais Porosos

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

The meeting is being organized by the National Division of Catalysis and Porous Materials of the Portuguese Chemical Society and is going to be held in Lamego, Portugal, from 21 to 23 September, 2007.
“The scientific programme includes plenary lectures, invited, oral and poster communications on topics of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, porous materials and […]

Original post by jmgs