The London Times magazine on Saturday had a page called The Male Room stuffed full of (apparently) “men’s stuff” including the LG Chocolate KG800 mobile phone. This neat little cellphone looks like a bar of electric chocolate, which came first…

I’m currently writing an article about the chemical analysis of tequila for my chemistry news webzine Reactive Reports. I did the usual scan of Wikipedia to get some basic info on this agave-based spirit and found a nice picture taken on…

For anyone who hits the Significant Figures blog looking for an explanation of significant figures, you can find a quick cribsheet below or try out the significant figures calculator here.

Significant figures (sig figs or sf) are basically a way of expressing…