Chemistry News

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, November 27, 2009 Source: ESA Science & Technology - Comments The European Space Agency has released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument.

Fundy High School will open for classes this morning following an unexpected day off Thursday, District 10 acting superintendent Jenny MacDougall hopes.

If you're like most people, you probably think chemistry is too difficult to bother with outside of school and too clinical to be any fun.

Hopefully you are the right person to ask about this. I am curious about making toffees and brittles and have noticed that some recipes have baking soda thrown in at the end.

The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers.

AMPAC Fine Chemicals LLC , a subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation announced today that it received the Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability Award at the Annual Statewide Environmental Summit, sponsored by the California Manufacturers and Technology Association , the Industrial Environmental Association and the Chemical Industry ...

You can think of it as origami -- very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions.

Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections , but that's what scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Readers and authors will have several new peer-reviewed chemistry journals to peruse next year.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A- You can think of it as origami A- very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions.

The need for skilled workers stood out as a major woe to North Country businesses at the Jobs Cabinet meeting with Governor John Lynch on Nov.

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr.

Liveris talks at the Dow Investor Day on Nov. 12. With its acquisition of Rohm and Haas , Dow Chemical now has the critical mass it needs to concentrate more on high-growth, value-added chemistry than on commodity chemicals, said CEO Andrew N. Liveris at a Nov.

This schematic shows the structure of the new material, Xe 7. Freely rotating hydrogen molecules surround xenon atoms .

Clemson University chemistry professor John Huffman was amused the first time someone called to talk about people smoking one of his lab projects to get high.

It's illegal, addictive and most of us are carrying it around in our wallets. Scientists have known for years that the vast majority of U.S. paper money contains small amounts of cocaine.

The Dow Chemical Co. and the California Institute of Technology are embarking on multiyear solar energy research collaboration.

Scientists haven't quite duplicated Captain Kirk's Star Trek phaser weapon just yet, but the use of light in medicine is making some interesting new advances.

As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent.

Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of thwarting its infection-promoting activity.