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Outer space smells like fried steak, hot metal and welding a motorbike, according to Nasa scientists.

A new technique using X-rays has enabled scientists to play 'detective' and solve the debate about the origins of a three billion year old rock fragment.

French police have opened an inquiry into allegations that a prominent Russian human rights lawyer may have been poisoned in Strasbourg on Monday.

Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, 725 21st Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chemical and Material Science Division, MSIN: K8-96, 902 Battelle ...

SANTA CLARA, CA, October 15 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of version 1.0 of Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, October 15, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cling film - also called plastic wrap - has to be pretty versatile.

WHAT IS IT? Dessert? Maybe, but at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, this molecular gastronomy creation could be the main course.

Another ground-breaking drama from American cable channel AMC, 'Breaking Bad' follows high school chemistry teacher Walter's dark and comic attempts at cooking crystal meth EMRAH GULER In one of the first ...

Penny Brothers tells Michael Brown about porphyrins, the porphyrin-boron mismatch and their potential role in neutron capture therapy Penny Brothers is an associate professor at the University of Auckland.

Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently ...

This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry was given to researchers for their work on illuminating living cells that enables scientists and researchers to study how genes, proteins, and entire cells operate.

ABERTILLERY, Wales, October 14 Atraverda ABERTILLERY, Wales , /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced materials company, Atraverda Limited, has appointed Dr George Brilmyer as Vice President, North American Business ...

Mekentosj BV, winner of three Apple Design Awards for their Mac desktop applications, is pleased to announce the availability of Solutions, their first scientific application for iPhone and iPod touch.

Tim Boller, a catalyst chemist at Exxon Mobil's technology and engineering complex in Baytown, and Pat Brant, a polymer scientist, examine a sheet of separator film used with lithium ion batteries.

Back in 1990 my father gave me a copy of Harold McGee's The Curious Cook for Christmas and reading it was a revelatory experience.

As is the case with most great scientific discoveries, it all started with a bit of curiosity.

Using positron emission tomography to track tracer doses of methamphetamine in humans' brains, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory find that the addictive and ...

Carbon dioxide is produced whenever fossil fuels are burned. RIKEN chemists have developed a catalyst that should allow carbon dioxide to be used as a versatile synthetic chemical.

UK researchers are licensing to industry their method of making artificial proteins by chemically modifying individual amino acid structures.

Explain what a film director and cinematographer does. As a director, first and foremost, you are a storyteller.