Chemistry
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a fundamental property of mixture behavior that might help extend the life of many things including vaccines, food and library booksand save money while doing it.
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President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen and biomass, to name a few.
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Extraction of oils and flavors from natural products is traditionally accomplished with either organic solvents or by steam distillation. Both of these methods have significant drawbacks.
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Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratorys Madhavi Martin has reinvented an old analytical method, finding some very new applications for the technology in the process.
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A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible. The highly efficient catalyst performs two crucial, and previously unreachable steps needed to oxidize ethanol and produce clean energy in fuel cell reactions.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to induce a predetermined chirality or "handedness in pre-biological molecules.
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Administrative workers should begin moving into the Department of Homeland Security's new National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick within six months.
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Chemists at Oregon State University have developed a new organocatalyst that will play a major role in new drug development.
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A new, multi-institutional research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy, to be headquartered at the University of Virginia, will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
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A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and sensors that detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.
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A University of Illinois at Chicago research group may have found a faster, cleaner, "greener" way to synthesize N-heterocycles, and the National Institutes of Health has just awarded the team a five-year, $1.48 million grant to prove its effectiveness.
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