Physical Sciences
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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A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only a few micrograms of material. Since i
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The Cold Triple Axis spectrometer, a new addition to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor and a complementary tool to other neutron scattering instruments at ORNL, has entered its commissioning phase.
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If you had never heard of graphene before, you might know something about it now if you follow the Nobel Prize announcements. Two physicists at the University of Manchester (UK) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments
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Researchers in carbon nanotubes, originally developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have been awarded more than $100,000 by the California Energy Commission to apply the technology to curbing industrial pollution.
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A paper by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may breathe new life into the use of a powerfulbut trickydiagnostic technique for cell biology. The paper,* appearing this week in the Biophysical Journal, demonstrat
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