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Small molecules of RNA play a key regulatory role in bacteria. Due to their small size, directly measuring the number of small RNA present in a single bacterium has proven so far to be an impossible task.

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For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot luminous flame.

There is nothing wrong with adding ice to scotch, writes Kevin Liu at Serious Eats.

The research is available online and will be featured on the June 21 cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A. The method allows chemists to work backward by first considering the type of zeolite they want to make and then creating the organic template needed to produce it.

A sustainable method from BT3 Technologies of France deposits fatty acids on paper substrates to yield superior barrier properties against moisture and oxygen.

Kenneth Wilson, a physicist who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine.

In the new study, chemists developed a chemical probe that reacts and lights up when live human cells generate hydrogen sulfide, says chemist Alexander R. Lippert, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Plants produce nectar to attract pollinators in the case of floral nectar and defenders in the case of extrafloral nectar .

Demonstrating growth and increasing momentum, the American Chemistry Council announces the addition of Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., KW Plastics Recycling, Mil-tek and Verdeco Plastics Inc. to the Flexible Film Recycling Group , the self-funded working group dedicated to driving unprecedented growth in polyethylene film recovery.

Students were very happy with the Leaving Certificate Chemistry Higher Level paper, according to Dr Martina Audley of Yeats College, Galway.

Zeke Cole, an Albright College chemistry major, has been named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program, the school announced Tuesday.

Researchers at the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University , Canberra, discovered that a rare tree found in Malaysia and Borneo holds the secret to greener chemical production.

There can be little doubt that plastic materials have dramatically improved everything from clothing to travel to communications to building.

Why Watch? Although director Fergal Rock could do with a better camera package, the charm of this short film comes from the sweetness of its leads.

A diet high in saturated fat can quickly rob the brain of a key chemical that helps protect against Alzheimer's disease, according to new research.

Members of the medical school's class of 2013 laugh as they listen to a speech by Long Nguyen, who spoke on behalf of the graduating MD students.

At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces.

Allen Seifert, right, a nuclear engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, leads students Hannah Gardiner, left, Andrea Richard and Pat Mulligan on a tour of PNNL's Shallow Underground Laboratory, June 11, 2013.

Physicist Bob Runkle used a double-gloved hand to point to a landline telephone on a counter in a laboratory 30 feet underground.