Since last week’s post was already pushing a thousand words with only the first five Ig Nobel prizes, today we’re picking up where we left out. Everyone else may be speculating about the actual Nobel Prize, but here at Science Shenanigans, we’re much too silly. Here are five more strange scientific studies that were recently […]
The Ig Nobel prizes were announced last night. Which was hilariously good timing seeing as yesterday I idly wondered if they’d been announced yet for this year. Sadly I didn’t get to actually watch the webcast live due to choir practice, but all the same it’s basically a gift wrapped post for this blog. So […]
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is an incredibly useful characterization technique. Assuming certain properties are met, the nucleus of an atom interacts with a magnetic field. The exact nature of that interaction is highly dependent on the environment around the atom. So you can get a ton of information about the structure of a molecule by […]