Did you know that this year alone, pirates have seized over 100 ships in only one area— the Gulf of Aden. I had to look that gulf up on Wikipedia, so don´t feel silly if you have to click through here also. Yep, that´s right, click on the link and you´re looking at Somalia. Reminds [...]

This is my first post.  YAY! I stumbled on this picture from google images that had been submitted in a contest of extremely teeny electron micrographs a couple years back. The contest had been part of a 2005 conference on “Electron, Ion, Proton and Beam Technology of Nanofabrication.” What you’re looking at is an SEM, [...]