Physical Sciences
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
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Validated for the organic solvent extraction of 25(OH)D from blood serum using liquid-liquid extraction (partition chromatography).
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The United Nations has designated 2011 the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) a global celebration of chemistry and its contributions to the world around us. This worldwide initiative is being celebrated under the auspices of the United Nations Ed
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The 25-year-old Tevatron particle accelerator in the US will end its operations in September this year since no funds are available to extend its life for three more years. The Tevatron is located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermila
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Michael Kessler of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is researching biorenewable polymers capable of healing themselves as they degrade and crack. The self-healing properties can increase material lifetimes and reduce maintenance.
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) today launched the International Year of Chemistrys IYC 365: Chemistry for Life, a vibrant science calendar for 2011 highlighting the great intellects and epic events that have shaped modern society through the mag
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Four researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society. David Christen, David Geohegan, Xun-Li Wang and William Weber were named APS fellows in recognition of th
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Eminent personalities from the world of chemistry, including several Nobel Prize winners, will participate in a colloquium to launch a year-long programme of events to celebrate chemistry and the vital role it plays in human and social development.
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The Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship sponsors young international green chemistry scholars to participate in any international green chemistry technical meeting, conference, or training program of their choosing. "Young international scholars" is are
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The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of the very cold into the very small, a research
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Proper selection and use of viscosity instrumentation can bring valuable time savings to test programs in todays busy labs. Increased data throughput, coupled with detailed analysis, is a new horizon that has potential to offer enhanced quality control.
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A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in todays issue of Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including benzene, toluene, xylenes and olefins from pyrolytic bio-oils, the
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