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A former chemist for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been sentenced to five years in prison. This is due to his involvement with an insider trading scheme, that spanned nearly five years, whilst he was working for the Federal Agency.
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The Caenorhabditis elegans species of tiny, transparent roundworms, favorite experimental subjects in biology labs, were found by researchers to communicate through molecular messages, in "sentences" made of chemical fragments.
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Clara Immerwahr was the courageous chemist who dared to take a lone stand against her husband and an entire empire in opposition to chemical warfare. How will she be remembered in the International Year of Chemistry?
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The annual Lindau meeting of young scholars with Nobel laureates concluded its 60th edition in 2010. To celebrate this milestone, Nature has come out with a supplement.
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The frigid ice of Jupiter's moon Europa may be hiding more than a presumed ocean: it is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulphur dioxide at extremely cold temperatures.
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Researchers have discovered that the ocean’s chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed.
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Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry.
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Douglas Prasher, a shuttle driver, should have received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work. But sadly he gave the work to two others after his government funding ran out. Those two received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year.
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It’s been one of the most frustrating bits of science since cookery was invented, trying to prove the presence of water on Mars. Soil samples have finally definitely been identified water. Maybe NASA will remember it's a science agency, not a donut shop
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Self-healing things have been part of science fiction for a long time, but I doubt if anyone envisaged this. Some very basic chemistry has created a molecular repair kit for “anything from adhesives to bicycle tires”, with their normal stretch.
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Actor talks chemistry with Will Smith and being Tommy Lee Jones.
The death is announced of the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals.
Nick Higham meets with Booker prize-winning novelist Peter Carey, about his new novel The Chemistry of Tears.
Professor Lesley Yellowlees, the Royal Society of Chemistry's president-elect, on why she believes Great Britain is half a century behind the United States when it comes to opportunities for women in science.
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ABOUT J. THOMAS SHAW J. Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended the University of Oklahoma and...
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A new scientific paper, published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, suggests that eating blueberries,...
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