Chemistry

Eating humans- vegan, vegetarian, or cannibal?

I was catching up on chemistry news over the lunch hour and discovered this little gelatinous  gem: New Strategy for Expression of Recombinant Hydroxylated Human-Derived Gelatin in Pichia pastoris KM71   You're wiggling and jiggling with excitement, r ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 25 2011 - 2:35pm

The Water Problem In Carbon Nanotubes

There are rules in making presentations to people- in wine sales, for example, as we outlined in The Science Of Wine And Cheese, you buy on bread and sel on cheese because eating cheese is the way people get the most positive taste.   In science, if the a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2011 - 10:47am

Mapping The Cliffs And Plains Of Chemistry Space

Chemistry space refers to the combinatorial and configurational space spanned by all possible molecules (i.e. those combination of atoms allowed by the rules of valence in energetically stable spatial arrangements). It is estimated that the total number o ...

Article - N. Sukumar - Sep 4 2011 - 9:58pm

Zinc- an old flame returns

I just now dug up this from the Science Codex:   Milestone: A methane-metal marriage relating how the group of Lucy Ziurys at the University of Arizona have found a promising new way of making methylzinc, and published it at the end of last year.  Compound ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 24 2011 - 3:19am

Has "Breaking Bad" Made The Reputation Of Chemistry Worse?

Are students inspired to go into physics because of a television show like "The Big Bang Theory"?  Probably not, or else 60% of America would be cops and lawyers. But chemistry has a bad reputation, argues a recent editorial in  Nature Chemistry, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2011 - 4:01pm

Next-Generation Ice Cream: Time-Released Flavors In Your Cone

Ice cream is big business in America.   Sales of ice cream and frozen desserts top $20 billion annually, according to the International Dairy Food Association, which is about 1.6 billion gallons per year or 23 quarts per person per year. It's consumed ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2011 - 1:36pm

Bioinspired Dry Tape Brings Spider-Man A Little Closer

Insects who can scale walls are able to do so because of the thousands of tiny hairs that cover their feet and legs. The hairs have flattened tips that can splay out to maximize contact, even on rough surfaces.  The ability of insects to run up walls and ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2011 - 7:31am

Infrared Glow-In-The-Dark Material

Glow-in-the-dark stickers are nothing new; they emit visible light after being exposed to sunlight.  A paper just published in Nature Materials emits a long-lasting, near-infrared glow after a single minute of exposure to sunlight. Why is that good?  It ha ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2011 - 6:00am

It's Silk Versus Ants For Your Chemical Warfare Future

Researchers have discovered how Golden orb web spiders (Nephila antipodiana) add a chemical to their web silk to repel invading ants, which means spider silk is even more awesome than it was before; it was already strong, elastic and adhesive, and now it c ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2011 - 1:30pm

For New Year's Eve, Toast The Chemistry Of Champagne

Champagne, unlike other wines, undergoes a second fermentation in the bottle to trap carbon dioxide gas, which dissolves into the wine and forms the fabled bubbles in the bubbly. More than 600 different chemical compounds join carbon dioxide in champagne, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2011 - 3:43pm