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The $20 million project funded through the National Science Foundation is one of the few funded projects looking at both climate and energy.

Superconducting radio frequency cavities are a key technology for next-generation accelerators and the future of particle physics.

Tobacco smoke residue found on indoor surfaces -- so-called "third-hand smoke" -- can interact with airborne compounds to form new, potentially cancer-causing substances, research suggests.

Recognizing an increased industry need for outsourced biopharmaceutical drug development services, Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories has expanded its offering to include comprehensive support for large molecule development.

Parmesan cheese is among the foods said to display umami characteristics. Shrink Parmesan cheese is among the foods said to display umami characteristics.

In tests at Berkeley Lab of celluose surfaces contaminated with nicotine residues from third-hand smoke, levels of newly formed TSNAs rose 10 times following a three hour exposure to nitrous acid.

Many reviewers, including our own AllAboutPrius.com, lauded the new, third generation 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid when it launched last spring--but wondered why it didn't use a lithium-ion battery, rather than 15-year-old nickel-metal-hydride technology.

OVER THE last century, burning coal has been a sensible way to produce electrical power.

In biochemistry lab, Johnson and Kate Willms watch their next move on one of the lab's iPods.

IF finding true love were an exact science, we wouldn't need matchmakers, singles bars or, of course, online dating services.

Sir Harold Kroto, a Nobel Prize winning chemist, will lecture on Feb. 19 at the Townsend Performing Arts Center on the University of West Georgia campus.

Almost overnight, Montgomery County's biggest biotech became a London pharmaceutical company's biggest bet.

Using an elaborate sleuthing system they developed to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that common but hard-to-see sugar switches are partly in control.

Calcium carbonate veins are common in upper ocean crust, where they precipitate from low temperature hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton .

Chemist launches collaborative project to make more potent form of much-needed drug.

One of the most important questions you can answer when trying to decide what wine to drink concerns acid.

1--A key ingredient in red wine may not unlock the fountain of youth after all. Thata s the conclusion from a study by Pfizer Inc.

Stephan Link wants to understand how nanomaterials align, and his lab's latest work is a step in the right direction.

Few people spare a thought for nitrogen. But with every bite we take - of an apple, a chicken leg, a leaf of spinach - we are consuming nitrogen.

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 2 RepublicansCandidate: Lawrence 'Larry' Meyers, incumbentAge:Residence: Fort WorthOccupation: Judge, Texas Court of Criminal AppealsBackground: Meyers was elected to the court in 1992 after serving as an associate justice on the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth from 1989 to 1992.