Antarctica hottest day - Antarctica seems to have witnessed its hottest day ever in history earlier this week and the temperature in the region had soared to a record-breaking 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit. It has broken the record set in last 50 years. The highest temperature was recorded by Base Esperanza, a research station run by Argentina situated on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-d-printer-small-molecules-access.html
Scientists led by Martin Burke, an
HHMI early career scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small
molecules from a common set of building blocks. Burke's team envisions expanding
the approach to enable the production of thousands of potentially useful
molecules with a single machine, which they describe as a "3D
printer" for small molecules. Their work is described in the March 13,
2015, issue of the journal Science.
