Chemistry

The Secret Ingredient In Primordial Soup

If objects from space kindled life on Earth, how did it happen? The terrestrial or extra-terrestrial case for important ingredients that led to the building blocks of life is a hot debate. A new paper says that  adenosine triphosphate, similar to what is ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2013 - 11:03am

Mechanochemistry: Physical Catalyst Makes Going Green Good Science

New research hopes to create reactions necessary for industries such as pharmaceutical companies but eliminate the resulting waste from traditional methods.  Traditional methods – dating back thousands of years – involve using solutions to speed up chemic ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2013 - 12:32pm

Balkan Bean Remedy Traps Bedbugs

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