First Link-of-the-day today is this to gallery of pictures of baby sloths from a wildlife resuce centre in Costa Rica: sloths don't generally rank highly on most people's lists of cute animals: these pictures may change your mind-
http://thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2010/08/the-daily-beast-august-29-2010.html
Today's second link is this article reporting research into solar panels/ photosynthesis: according to the link, scientists at MIT have created a synthetic process that imitates photosynthesis. By combining phospholipids and carbon nanotubes, they have been able to produce a "self-assembling solar panel": this is an over simplification, of course, the details are here-
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/scientists-disc.php
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Links of the day- baby sloths, photosynthesis and self-assembling solar panels
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