Chemistry

Better Living For Microbial Communities Thanks To The Power Of Chemistry

Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. The study was conducted in an area wh ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2009 - 11:37am

Chinese Medicine Claims Can Soon Be Studied Thanks To Total Synthesis Chemistry

The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant purportedly used to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a brew of alkaloids that have attracted scientific and medical interest because of the use of the moss in homeopathy. Howeve ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2009 - 6:34pm

Battling Biological Warfare May Get Easier Thanks To DNA Biosynthesis

Combating several human pathogens, including some biological warfare agents, may one day become a bit easier thanks to research reported by a University of Iowa chemist and his colleagues in the April 16 issue of the journal Nature. Amnon Kohen, associate ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2009 - 6:32pm

Chemistry Dates Earth

See this on Earth Day! Credit: Timothy Newhouse, Chad A. Lewis and Phil S. Baran.[1] And see it any day on Earth. Kapakahines B and F are both awesome in the eye of some of us. They are still beautiful for the rest of us because they are promising big thi ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Apr 18 2009 - 5:59pm

Better BBQ Through Chemistry: Creating A Frosty Cold One

Summer is coming. The time of camping and icy cold drinks. I've been working on developing a freeze dried beer that comes in a small pack and rehydrates fully carbonated with all its alcohol intact. ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Aug 22 2009 - 11:15am

Practical Chemistry: What Makes Blue Jeans Blue?

If you like blue jeans, well, I think you're really a lazy dresser, but you are at least not alone historically.   Since the Middle Ages, blue has also been the color worn by nobility. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2009 - 2:37am

Beautiful Shell Debris: CaCO3 Preservation

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Article - Heidi Henderson - Apr 30 2009 - 9:58am

Detected- Shortest Single Bond Ever Observed Between Atoms Of Chlorine And Carbon

The description of compounds and interactions between atoms is one of the basic objectives of chemistry. Admittedly, chemical bonding models, which describe these properties very well, already exist. However, any deviation from the normal factors may lead ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2009 - 10:10am

How Green Is Your Rocket?

When the Chinese invented gunpowder round about the 800s, they founded one half of the science of chemistry, namely bangs, the other half of course being stinks.  They quickly applied it to warfare, both as an explosive in bombs, and as a propellant in ro ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 4 2009 - 6:32pm

Super Hydrophobic Micro Robots Go!

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water-- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2009 - 9:04pm