Now that ACS Chicago is finally behind us and we’ve all returned to a mountain of work, whether it be manuscripts or reactions, I just wanted to put up a quick post and point out that our blogroll has been updated… no more Tenderbutton or Endless Frontier, but a whole host of other fantastic chemistry related blogs for you to read. The blogosphere (surely this is not a real word yet, is it?) is constantly (and rapidly) evolving, so if we’ve missed any blogs or sites that you think we should be linking to, please let us know – and we’ll consider them for the next update.

Stuart

Stuart Cantrill (Associate Editor, Nature Nanotechnology)

The oceans’ heating will shave instants off the day.

The warming of the world’s oceans is going to shorten the day, say German researchers. But there’s no need to adjust your watch: the shortening will be by only 0.12 milliseconds over the next 200 years, they estimate.

Read the story here.

Stranger than fiction: on 1 April 2004, news@nature.com reported that climate change was making the day longer – as an April Fools’ day joke (see ‘Day lost to stronger trade winds’). “I’m astonished we got anywhere close to the truth,” says Nicola Jones, author of the original piece. “I just made that up.”