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Published in CST Online
Author Ben Keightley

A police officer who has become unpopular in his home department is seconded to a small island which is a French Overseas Territory.  He arrives in a suit, which is incongruous to his surroundings and new colleagues, develops a relationship with his new partner, a Frenchwoman, which is by turns adversarial and potentially romantic.

Crystal_structure_miningInteresting Chemistry
Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog

In my story about one of the molecules of the year, cyclo[48]carbon, I noted that the DFT method used in the literature to model the C-C bond length alternation around the ring (OX B3LYP30) had been re-calibrated against a remeasured crystal structure of C18H18 or [18]-annulene (below) in order to reproduce the observed values for […]

DEINE UNIBIBBIBLIOTHEKSWELTWissen VerbindenLizenz:CC-BY-4.0-INTTIBGerman
Published in TIB-Blog
Author Julia Hoffmann

Wissenschaft ist bekanntlich eine ernste Angelegenheit. Monografien mit nüchternen Titeln, Aufsätze voller Formeln und Fußnoten prägen den Arbeitsalltag in den Fachreferaten der TIB. Und doch: Wer regelmäßig neue Titel sichtet und für den Bibliotheksbestand auswählt, weiß, dass sich zwischen all der fachlichen Strenge hin und wieder kleine Überraschungen verbergen.