Bring your lab skills to the BBQ!
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!
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!
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…
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…
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!
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!
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!
We look at how tea does great things – not just for the British!
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!
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.
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….!