16 min ago | Thomasville Times
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.
4 hrs ago | Chemistry World
Chad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
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.
7 hrs ago | Ynetnews
Exiled Syrian chemist sheds light on Assad's chemical arms
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.
7 hrs ago | CNN
You're well-versed in all things locally grown, have your kids happily eating quinoa and can identify at least three varieties of kale.
9 hrs ago | Gizmag
Toxic shock syndrome can't hide from fluorescent medical dressing
The new infection-indicating dressing on a healthy skin sample and on an infected skin sample .
10 hrs ago | Business Journal
U.S. chemical investment breakdown proves Gulf Coast is still king
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.
With Renewed Vision, SBCC Graduate Robert Gutierrez Sees Bright Future
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.
New filtration material could make petroleum refining cheaper, more efficient
A newly synthesized material might provide a dramatically improved method for separating the highest-octane components of gasoline.
A bittersweet shift in cockroach defences
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 Develop an Advanced Biological Computer
Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine.
UGA research aims to fix long-held, inaccurate insect model
In humans, a polymer called melanin determines skin, eye and hair color-the darker the skin, the more melanin in a person's body.
Medical Device/Diagnostic Ind.
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.
Hague signs scientific collaboration deal between the UK and Israel
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has agreed an initiative that will promote co-operation on scientific issues between the UK and Israel.
Study reveals active sit of enzyme linked to stuttering
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.
Microwaves Distinguish Mirror-Image Compounds
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.
Science, Industry and Business
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.
Scientific Computing/Instrument.
Elaborate Nanostructures Blossom, Self-assemble in Beaker
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)
Chemists find new compounds to curb staph infection
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)
Scientific Tooth Fairies Investigate Neanderthal Breast-Feeding
Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years.
Mustard video: CSI-style murder mystery in schools' festival of chemistry
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.