Chemistry
- Going National: Chemists heading to San Francisco
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This weekend, over 10,000 chemists will descent upon San Francisco for the American Chemical Society national meeting. For those of us ...
Blog Post - Ray Burks - Mar 15 2010 - 11:57pm
- The Key To Silk's Pound-For-Pound Toughness: Beta-Sheet Crystals
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The key to silk's pound-for-pound toughness, which exceeds that of steel, is its beta-sheet crystals, the nano-sized cross-linking domains that hold the material together, say researchers writing in Nature Materials. Using computer models, researchers ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 12:25pm
- Researchers Introduce "Non-Destructive" Carbon Dating
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Scientists have development of a new carbon dating method to determine the age of mummies, artwork, and other relics without damaging them. Presenting at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they say the method, called Non-Destruc ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 10:47am
- Popcorn Science Again
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What started my scientific wondering about popcorn? I was reading press-releases about presentations at the American Chemical Society 's 239 th meeting happening this week in San Francisco while craving a healthy snack. Suddenly, I remembered my favor ...
Blog Post - Anonymous - Mar 23 2010 - 8:14pm
- Cellulosic ethanol used as an alternative fuel
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Ethanol is used to make alcohol, distillation of the mixture leads to the isolation of pure ethanol, a good alternative to petrol. there is a debate among ecologists and scientists whether to use corn or cellulose to manufacture ethanol. There are a group ...
Blog Post - Stephanie Reynolds - Apr 15 2010 - 3:56am
- Worm Inspired Super-Glue
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By Ladd (DePaul University student) ...
Blog Post - Justin Maresh - Apr 17 2010 - 5:28pm
- Ancestral Eve Crystal Gave Life Its Left-Handedness
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A team of chemical engineers have discovered what may be the "ancestral Eve" crystal that billions of years ago gave life on Earth its curious and exclusive preference for so-called left-handed amino acids. The results are published in Crystal G ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2010 - 12:59pm
- Lasers Versus Dirty Bombs- INL Research Uses Light To Tackle Terrorism Concerns
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Lasers can do many things for us, from scanning barcodes at the grocery checkout to searching for life on the surface of Mars. And, according to chemists at Idaho National Laboratory, lasers might be able to help the nation respond in the case of a possibl ...
Article - Mike Wall - Apr 21 2010 - 2:38pm
- Peptides: The Key To Chemical Evolution?
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Two new studies conducted by scientists at Emory University have found that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's chemical inventory and the organizational ...
Article - News Staff - May 6 2010 - 12:55pm
- Silver And Earth's Volatile Origins
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By analyzing tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks, scientists are putting together a timetable of how our planet was assembled 4.5 billion years ago. The new study, published in Science, indicates that water a ...
Article - News Staff - May 13 2010 - 1:54pm
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