Chemistry

A traditional Balkan bedbug remedy has been shown stab and trap the biting insects, according to a paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Just in time, too. Bedbugs have made a dramatic comeback in the U.S. in recent years, infesting everyth ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 6:00pm

New Microbatteries Are Tiny But Can Jump-Start A Car

The most powerful batteries on earth are only a few millimeters in size but a cellphone version can jump-start a dead car battery and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye. Led by Professor William P. King, researchers at the University of Illin ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2013 - 3:30pm

Smelly Chemicals- An Organic Chemist's View

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Article - Payal Joshi - Apr 26 2013 - 5:02am

Crystal Flowers At Micron Scale Self-Assemble In A Beaker

By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, researchers have been able to create delicate flower structures- not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule sculptures don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally a ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2013 - 12:49pm

Saturated Fats Mean Better Pork- But Not Better Bacon

Because government mandates and subsidies for ethanol have caused grain prices to increase, pig farmers have instead looked for alternatives. One of those is distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol that has expanded along wit ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2013 - 1:44pm

Prebiotic Synthesis Of Organic Matter Reaction

How lifeless materials became organic molecules that are the bricks of animals and plants is a science question for the ages. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2013 - 10:07am

How To Murder Someone Organically

Want to off someone but you are ethically against using anything made by Monsanto? ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2013 - 9:07pm

Weekend Science: Recreating 5,000 Year Old Sumerian Beer

Could you make an ancient beer using nothing but ancient tools? Probably, if you know how to make beer anyway. But would it be authentic ancient beer? Archaeologists and brewmasters have been trying to make just that kind, sparing no effort to replicate a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:23pm

Atomic Weights Changed For Five Chemical Elements

Standard atomic weights for chemical elements are not quite as constant as you might think- along with the speed of light and the attraction of gravity there are some exceptions. Hold on to your Newtonian hat and prepare for the possibility of elementary n ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 7:48pm

ACS Salary Survey For Chemists

The American Chemical Society recently published its 2012 salary survey for Chemists and can be found here: http://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/careers/salaries/surveys/salaries-2012.pdf As Figuer 1 shows, the median salary for all (degree level) chemist ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Jul 7 2013 - 6:55pm