Chemistry News

Engineering professor, 39, identified as UCLA shooting victim

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 03:56:32 GMT

A law enforcement official says the victim of a murder-suicide that locked down the UCLA campus for hours was an engineering professor. William S. Klug was gunned down in an engineering building office Wednesday morning, according to the official who has knowledge of the investigation but wasn't authorized to publicly discuss it.

Flashback: 25 years ago

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:41:30 GMT

The RSC and the London College of Fashion have teamed up to put on a fashion show entitled Chemically chic at the Savoy Hotel in London. Chemistry's latest contribution to the world of fashion - thermochromic fabric, which changes colour while you wear it - was featured.

BNL's Sedlacek flies the not-so-friendly skies

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:12:23 GMT

The search for small particles has taken Arthur Sedlacek to places like thick plumes of smoke above wildfires raging in the western United States to picturesque vistas on Ascension Island, a staging area for the Allies for antisubmarine activities during World War II. A chemist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sedlacek is studying aerosols, which are tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere.

Bihar stays results of toppers who failed to answer basic questions

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:44:20 GMT

The Bihar Examination Board orders probe after Intermediate arts topper terms political science as 'prodical science', science topper goes blank when asked basic chemistry questions, reports M I Khan from Patna. fter a controversy erupted over the merit of Class 12 toppers this year in Bihar, the Bihar School Examination Control Board on Wednesday put their results on hold and ordered them to appear before a team of experts for an interview and a written examination.

Round the clock chemistry

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:00:12 GMT

We often hear that chemistry infiltrates all aspects of our daily lives. This is never so true than for a PhD student.

Academic Science and Laboratory Building, Southern Connecticut State University

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:43:51 GMT

An eye-catching new home for STEM departments and programs at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven is part of the university's efforts to boost its curriculum in those disciplines. In addition to physics, biology and chemistry classes, the building hosts the Werth Center for Coastal and Marine Studies as well as the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Nanotechnology.

For spruce trees fighting bark-burrowing beetles, it boils down to chemistry

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 03:28:38 GMT

Trees killed by spruce-bark beetle near Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park and Preserve. When a major infestation of spruce-bark beetles swept through the boreal forest of Southcentral Alaska in the 1990s and early 2000s, scientists were curious about its patchy path of devastation.

Resident Promoted by Alverno College

Tue, 31 May 2016 23:03:49 GMT

Alex Blom has been promoted to associate professor of Physical Science at Alverno College. Blom, a Greenfield resident, has worked at Alverno since 2009 teaching several different classes including physical chemistry, chemistry of bio-organic molecules, instrumental analysis, chemistry of inorganic materials and integrated science.

Calculating the mechanics of a rough sphere

Tue, 31 May 2016 18:30:39 GMT

The scientific community uses spheres for all sorts of things -- artificial limbs, cars, molecular chemistry -- but there's always a little uncertainty when this geometric shape is introduced into an experiment. While spheres might look smooth and round to the naked eye, their surfaces are far from it.

Rosetta's Comet: Ingredients for Life

Tue, 31 May 2016 16:08:43 GMT

The thought that water and organic molecules might have arrived on the early Earth from the impacts of comets and asteroids has long been provocative, and our missions to nearby comets are now paying off with insights into the possibility. It was back in 2004 that the Stardust mission flew past Comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples that showed traces of the amino acid glycine.

CAO Pilon Robusto

Tue, 31 May 2016 11:37:06 GMT

Released in 2015, CAO's Pilon cigar is named for an important part of the tobacco fermentation process. After tobacco leaves have been harvested and dried they are moved from the curing barn to undergo a "sweating" process.

Sexy turn scores top Marx

Tue, 31 May 2016 07:24:06 GMT

Ending a 25-year marriage and going back on the market had a profound impact on 80s icon Richard Marx's songwriting. The king of love ballads, best known for romantic songs such as Right Here Waiting, Should've Known Better and Now and Forever, surprised fans with a sexy change in direction when he released his eighth studio album Beautiful Goodbye in 2014.

World's smallest submarine dives beneath the atomic water line

Tue, 31 May 2016 03:14:55 GMT

The world's smallest submarine, no bigger than a single molecule, is ready and waiting for launch. The minuscule sub, comprising a total of just 244 atoms, has a variety of potential applications and promises to revolutionise the world of underwater travel.

3 New Studies: Earth's Climate Not Warming That Fast

Tue, 31 May 2016 01:03:58 GMT

Earth's climate may not rise as quickly as scientists currently think, according to three new studies of how clouds are formed. Science magazine reports that the studies show that aerosols produced by humans may not cause the skies to get that much cloudier than they were before the Industrial Revolution.

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Mon, 30 May 2016 20:39:43 GMT

Because most scientists have grown weary of responding to writers such as LSU professor emeritus Loren Scott, some who are not scientists, but follow history, pose questions: Does Scott recall that carbon dioxide levels went beyond 400 parts per million in May 2013 for the first time in history, measured with certainty in the Mauna Loa laboratory located on the big island of Hawaii? The same readings were reported this year from New Zealand. High school chemistry students know carbon dioxide coming into contact with water becomes carbonic acid.

TSCA Reform Passes House And Is Expected To Pass Senate Without Sustainable Chemistry Provision

Mon, 30 May 2016 16:29:52 GMT

On May 24, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2576, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act , the long-awaited Toxic Substances Control Act Reform. Senate approval is expected, with the bill being signed into law soon after.

Stevia: A Guarani miracle or nightmare?

Mon, 30 May 2016 14:19:55 GMT

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