Blog: Willy Kuo
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A trip to the Microtomography Beamline ID19 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
in: Researchon July 11, 2017When I tell people that I went to a synchrotron to perform X-ray phase contrast micro-computed tomography, among the questions I get are “What’s a synchrotron?” and “Why can’t you use a normal micro-CT machine?”
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Water cooled coffee bean grinding and how things taking longer can open up new possibilities
in: Protocolson September 29, 2016Time is money, so the saying goes, so a lot of resources are spent in every aspect of life on making things go faster. However, this is also valid in reverse – one can often save a lot of resources if one is able and willing to wait. I could buy a computer doing the calculations twice as fast, or I could just wait twice as long.
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Science is in everyday life – illustrated on the example of cold extraction of coffee
2 commentsin: Popular Science, Protocolson March 11, 2016There is this perception, most often seen in movies, that science is something only conducted in dedicated laboratories solely by highly trained professionals (or crazy people, especially if it’s a horror movie).
However, natural science is simply finding patterns in nature leading to reproducible results.
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