A Broken Luminarc Kitchen Bowl

Bowl-to-bowl inversion of sumanene derivatives.

The bowl-to-bowl inversion of the non-planar bowl-shaped compounds derived from sumanene as a fullerene C3v fragment was found to be slow and tuned by a solvent, and the benzylic mono- and di-anions inverted even more slowly.

A Broken Metallic Tracheostomy Tube

Surface-assisted bowl-in-bowl stacking of nonplanar aromatic hydrocarbons.

Bowl-in-bowl stacking of buckybowls on a copper surface is observed via scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at low temperatures and characterized by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

A Robot in the Kitchen

A technology demonstrator is one thing but having people use a technology is another, and the result reported here is that people often ignore our lovingly crafted handiwork. The SERA project Social Engagement with Robots and Agents was set up to look explicitly at what happens when a robot companion is put in someone’s home. Even if things worked perfectly, there are times when a companion’s h...

Kitchen Girl

The Appalachian mountains comprise a system of ranges that begins in Quebec, Canada, passes through New York, and reaches south along the U.S. eastern seaboard to Georgia and Alabama. Portions of the mountain system are in 12 states and include ranges such as the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. The land is heavily forested, rocky, and sparsely pop...