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A Martian meteorite - an incredibly rare object - has been given to science to help unravel the Red Planet's secrets.

The 2012 Carnegie Science Award winners are an impressive list of educators, innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs whose work is sending ripples far beyond our region.

Cal Dooley , ACC President and CEO, was joined by members of Congress and business leaders at an event on Capitol Hill.

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." So goes the classic Dean Martin song.

The TBPY-5 rhodium complex [ Rh ] 3), which contains ethylene in the equatorial plane and a labile acetonitrile ligand at one of the axial positions, provides a simple entry into the chemistry of the fac -[P3Rh] scaffold.

How about an international award - without the gold medal, the diploma and the money - for hypocrisy? If there was such an award, the statements of European and American leaders in the immediate aftermath of Russia and China's veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria suggest two most obvious nominees for it.

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Edward Joseph Mercure is an amazing kid. Known to most by his nickname "EJ," this Cranston student is far from ordinary.

He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces these structures can serve as highly efficient catalysts.

David C. Johnson , a University of Oregon chemistry professor, will take the minuscule world of nanotechnology on the road to Albany, Ore., Feb.

Homogeneous catalysis, in which the catalyst is mixed directly in with the reaction components, sees widespread use in industrial settings.

North Carolina State University researchers have created specially engineered mammalian cells to provide a new "chemical handle" which will enable researchers to label proteins of interest more efficiently, without disrupting the normal function of the proteins themselves or the cells in which they are found.

A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel.

Ronald Lloren, a research assistant at UP Diliman who's now earning a master's degree in Marine Science,credits the Dynamic Learning Program for instilling in him the concept of 'learning by doing'. MANILA, Philipines - As a high school student in Central Visayan Institute Foundation in Bohol, Ronald Lloren developed the ability to learn ... (more)

But the research has led scientists at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Albany to the discovery that it's the copper in our bodies that makes mammals recoil from sulfurous chemical smells.

Pennsylvania State University researchers have devised a technique for embedding an electronic junction directly into optical fiber, which potentially paves the way for more streamlined optical components.

February 6, 2012 - In addition to this week's NewsBreak , the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about.

Everything leaves a trace-fingerprints, ballistics, DNA. Law enforcement agents have an extensive forensic toolbox to link perpetrators to crime scenes and murder weapons.

Chemists could soon have a cheaper way to make silicone-based surfactants, fluids, release coatings, and pressure-sensitive adhesives, thanks to an iron catalyst that spurs alkene hydrosilylation reactions .

NMR spectrometry is one of the big guns in organic chemistry and biochemistry for determining how atoms are strung together in molecules.