The importance of fizz, more technically known as effervescence, in sparkling wines and champagnes is not to be underestimated — it contributes to the complete sensory experience of a glass, or flute, of fine bubbly. A scientist has now closely examined the factors that affect these bubbles, and he has come up with an estimate of just how many are in each glass. The report appears in the American Chemical Society The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Acquisition will broaden product offering, provides Asian Operations Center.

The Pittcon 2015 Program Committee is pleased to announce the deadline for two of its prestigious awards, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry and Pittsburgh Conference Achievement, has been extended to May 9, 2014.These annual awards will be presented during Pittcon 2015 which will be held in New Orleans, March 8-12, 2015, at the Morial Convention Center.

Recognizing need for greater genomic research productivity, NIH and Maryland Venture Fund put support behind BioDT.

Meaningful “quick read” whitepaper “Life Science Trends 2014” also offers exclusive feature article on Big Data in the Life Sciences.

Harvard researchers offer new views of body’s insulating material.

Team developing LC/MS methods, bioinformatics tools for discovery of metabolic regulatory mechanisms.

Protecting wildlife while feeding a world population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 will require a holistic approach to conservation that considers human-altered landscapes such as farmland, according to Stanford researchers.

Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, is delighted to announce that it has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2014 in the Innovations category for its inVia Raman microscope.

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope confirms -- for the first time -- that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our Sun.

The Broad Institute announced April 15 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first patent for an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system that is enabling scientists to modify genes and better understand the biology of living cells and organisms. The institute applied for the patent in concert with the January 3, 2013 publication in Science (Cong, et al.) that described the use of the CRISPR enzyme, Cas9, for genome editing.