Science: September 2008 Archives

Ever the environmentalists, in this edition of Beaker Hill we preview Boston GreenFest 2008 (Friday and Saturday in City Hall Plaza) by examining some recent alternative energy breakthroughs that didn’t make it into the festival. So if you decide to head out to GreenFest, feel free to drop one or two of these stories to impress your friends. Mention that you read it on Bostonist and you’ll win a free shirt! (Not really.) We start today with a study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie out......

More MIT madness leads off this edition of Beaker Hill. We’re always thoroughly impressed by these Cantabridgian crusaders, not just for the intriguing work they put together, but also for the way completely off-the-wall concepts make perfect sense in their world.Take their new cancer-targeting system loosely modeled after a Viking longboat. No, it’s not a mashup of Beowulf and Fantastic Voyage (as entertaining as that would be) but a contraption out of the lab of Stephen Lippard. The system uses a carbon nanotube......