The movie tells the tragic tale of Edward Scissorhands, played by a young Johnny Depp. Edward was a creation of The Inventor, who built the human-robot from parts in his eccentric workshop-cookie-making factory. Edward was initially given scissors for temporary hands, taken from one of the working robots.
by Andrea Widener | January 21, 2023
Chemists have used the instruments’ powerful pulses to make molecular movies that have enabled them to watch myriad processes, such as chemical bonds forming and photosynthetic enzymes going to work. “In a femtosecond flash, you can see atoms stand still, single atomic bonds breaking,” Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, a materials scientist with joint appointments at Stanford University and SLAC, told C&EN in July.
by Ariana Remmel | December 15, 2022
Taconic and its partner, Silverstein Properties, converted six floors in a Warner Bros. film editing and processing facility—called the Movie Lab building—on Manhattan’s West Side. Taconic has two other sites, including one on the East Side, under development with partners. The firm launched a life sciences subsidiary, Elevate Research Properties, earlier this year.
by Rick Mullin | August 21, 2022
“The first thing that came to mind was the scene from the movie Aliens, where the aliens are moving in through the ceiling,” says Paul Bonvallet, a chemistry professor to whom students reported the mysterious noises. “You can hear them, but you can’t see them.” Animal intruders are not unheard of at the northeastern Ohio campus, but this visitor was elusive.
by Kerri Jansen | August 08, 2022
Since these light sources have come on line in the last decade, chemists have used their powerful pulses to make molecular movies of the formation of chemical bonds between carbon and oxygen, determine the structure of small molecules that form crystals too small to map with other methods, watch photosynthetic enzymes go to work, and simulate the formation of diamonds in planetary interiors.
by Katherine Bourzac | July 23, 2022
/analytical-chemistry/imaging/Videos-show-bonds-short-lived/100/i24 20220701 A new imaging technique could help chemists study bonding in ephemeral molecules Concentrates 100 24 /magazine/100/10024.html Videos show bonds in short-lived metal clusters Imaging, analytical chemistry, Chemical bonding, physical chemistry, metal cluster, dimer, trimer, gold, silver, copper, Tokyo Institute of Technology, scanning transmission electron microscopy, movie con scitech Ariana Remmel analytical-chemistry imaging physical-chemistry chemical-bonding Chemists tracked the movement of two gold atoms in real time, revealing brief moments when they formed a metal dimer.
by Ariana Remmel | July 01, 2022
In fact, there’s a whole subgenre of science communication exploring how stuff from books and movies stacks up against real-world science. “Movies are cool, everybody’s watching those, everybody can talk about them,” says Ricardo Castro, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Davis. He’s taught an intro-level engineering class based on Marvel comics and movies since 2016. Bringing his love of superheroes into his lectures “opened a whole new universe” for connecting with students—especially those who wouldn’t normally sign up for an engineering course. One of the materials Castro discusses in his class is vibranium: the main component of Captain America’s shield and Black Panther’s suit and part of a long-standing tradition of miraculous metals in fantasy and sci-fi that are superstrong but lightweight.
by Brianna Barbu | May 06, 2022
Or chatting with a group of people at lunch, one might say, “Hey guys, what do you think about the new Batman movie?” Try a gender-neutral approach instead: the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide is designed to help ACS members and staff consider diversity and inclusion in communication and includes examples of words to avoid and ones to use.
by Katherine L. Lee, director, District I | April 23, 2022