Chemistry

Going National: Chemists heading to San Francisco

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

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

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

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

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

By Ladd (DePaul University student) ...

Blog Post - Justin Maresh - Apr 17 2010 - 5:28pm

Ancestral Eve Crystal Gave Life Its Left-Handedness

 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

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?

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

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