Chemistry News

According to a press release, William Jerome Smith, 49, of 325 Taylor St., was arrested and charged with possession of precursors to manufacture methamphetamine following a month-long investigation by the TPD Special Operations Unit.

We are pleased to announce that Chad Mirkin , of Northwestern University, in Evanston in the US, has been named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year 2013.

A former scientist for the Syrian chemical weapons program said Bashar Assad 's regime has enough of the nerve agent sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo," Al-Jazeera reported Friday.

You're well-versed in all things locally grown, have your kids happily eating quinoa and can identify at least three varieties of kale.

The new infection-indicating dressing on a healthy skin sample and on an infected skin sample .

There's no question that the chemical industry is booming here in Houston. However, some may still be wondering to what exact degree new chemical investment will affect the area's jobs, tax collection and construction in the short and long term.

Under fluorescent lab lights, 30-year-old Robert Gutierrez was packing up papers and lab equipment, having just finished his last five-hour Organic Chemistry 2 lab.

A newly synthesized material might provide a dramatically improved method for separating the highest-octane components of gasoline.

In a report published in the journal Science on Thursday, three North Carolina researchers have determined that cockroaches have changed their internal chemistry in order to detect sweet substances as tasting bitter, thereby enabling them to avoid glucose-laced pesticides.

Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine.

In humans, a polymer called melanin determines skin, eye and hair color-the darker the skin, the more melanin in a person's body.

Glow-in-the-dark stars on a child's bedroom ceiling may not have the same appeal for scientists as nanotechnology, but they do provide a good comparison point for Jill Millstone, assistant professor of chemistry at Pittsburg University, and the new nanoscale alloy that her team has developed.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has agreed an initiative that will promote co-operation on scientific issues between the UK and Israel.

Scientists from the Joint Center for Structural Genomics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have determined the 3D structure of the chemically active part of an enzyme involved in stuttering.

The electric dipole moments, shown as arrows, of these two enantiomers of 1,2-propanediol are alike in all but one respect: The dipole moments along the C -axis point in opposite directions.

Harvard physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures - greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important, though time-consuming, processes in analytical chemistry.

Cambridge, MA -- "Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything." With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory - and not ... (more)

Writing online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Helen Blackwell describes agents that effectively interfere with the "quorum sensing" behavior of Staphylococcus aureus , a bacterium at the root of a host of human infections ranging from acne to life-threatening ... (more)

Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years.

Around 160 Year 7 and 8 students swapped school uniform for goggles and lab-coats yesterday as they took part in the nationwide Salters' Festival of Chemistry.