Bring your lab skills to the BBQ!
Posted on: July 14, 2016
With the right ingredients, a “dash” of chemistry, maybe a cold drink, – we can turn up the heat and feel smug that we’re all chemists when we barbecue!
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A community approach
Posted on: June 21, 2016
When Don Clark, an experienced analytical chemist at Pfizer in Kent, UK, mentioned his work in chemistry outreach projects we felt it was incredibly important to play our part and make a contribution where we could. Find out more about these programmes…
The Chemistry of Ice Cream
Posted on: June 17, 2016
We haven’t managed to convince Martyn that an in-house ice cream manufacturing station with an Asynt CryoSyn liquid nitrogen generator is a reasonable staff facility, but we did find that the cooling DrySyn SnowStorm Reactor Kit is really wonderful at holding* several of these chilled treasures at a low temperature until we’re ready to eat! We might possibly need more space for sauces, toppings and proper ice cream cornets though…
World Baking Day and the chemistry behind the cakes
Posted on: May 16, 2016
With what seems to be a celebrated day of the year for every occasion it would be remiss of us to ignore World Baking Day on Tuesday 17th May but we’ll look at it from the Chemists viewpoint!
A trick for the next Bond movie?
Posted on: May 13, 2016
With new inventions needed for the next James Bond movie, the Israeli team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science might have just the thing!
A Japanese adventure
Posted on: May 10, 2016
Martyn Fordham recently visited Asynt and Uniqsis partners in Japan with some very useful findings relating to chemistry laboratories there and how things differ from our experiences in the UK. He also discovered just how bad he is at Karaoke!
The Asynt tea addicts!
Posted on: April 18, 2016
We look at how tea does great things – not just for the British!
Asynt in the USA
Posted on: April 12, 2016
Dr Arran Solomonsz recently took a trip to the USA to visit our partners, Quark Glass, and to attend the ACS in San Diego. He always managed to find some to try the best of any local cuisine though!
Up to Speed on Meldonium
Posted on: March 11, 2016
Dr Kerry Elgie recommends: Derek Lowe covers the scandal that hit the newspapers worldwide recently relating to tennis superstar, Maria Sharapova, and her use of a drug called Meldonium which has never been officially approved in the US or anywhere in Western Europe.
10 of the best chemical reactions the internet has to offer!
Posted on: March 11, 2016
We all like to watch videos of things we don’t want to try ourselves so we’ve compiled a collection of chemistry explosions/reactions for you NOT to try at home! Or in the lab….!
