Chemistry

Takeover Titan Samuel Heyman Dead At 70

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Obituary: Well-known corporate raider in the chemicals sector passes away after open heart surgery.

House Passes Chemical Security Measure

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Safety: Bill requires separate standards for academic labs, large commercial facilities.

The Silk Road Ensemble performed at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Ceremony in India

Ismailimail (Free subscription) | yesterday

5 Nov 2009, Raman Ramakrishnan , 33, a professional musician who plays the cello, is quite like his father and Nobel prize winner for chemistry, Venkatraman or ‘Venki’. Below is an excerpt from his interview with TNN. Q. Have you performed in India before, apart from the Sangat music festival? I have performed in New Delhi and [...]

Clorox To Stop Using Chlorine

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Plant Security: Bleach maker will end shipment of hazardous chemical.

Climate-Change Maneuvers

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Legislation: Democrats push ahead as Republicans boycott markup meetings.

Ironing Out Mercury's Makeup

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Planetary Science: New results from spacecraft flyby show iron-rich surface.

Japanese Earnings Surprise

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Fiscal First Half: Firms performed better than feared.

Chemistry Behind The Wall

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, chemists who lived in former East Germany reflect on science then and now.

Environmental Scrutiny

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

EPA will assess impacts of black carbon and drilling chemicals for hydraulic fracturing.

Pharma Strategy

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Novartis makes major R&D and vaccines investments in China.

OSHA Hits BP With Record Fine

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

$87 million penalty for violations, failure to comply with 2005 settlement.

How Size Matters For Catalysts

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Study links size, activity, electronic propertiesUniversity of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. The study is a step toward the goal of designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts to increase energy production, reduce Earth-warming gases and manufacture...

• How Size Matters for Catalysts - Newswise

Toward Home-brewed Electricity with "Personalized Solar Energy"

Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities. That's the topic of a report by an international expert on solar energy scheduled for the November 2 issue of ACS' Inorganic Chemistry...

The Ribosome: The Cell's Protein-Synthesizing Machine and How Antibiotics Disrupt It

Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Here's an excerpt from a fascinating lecture presented at Brookhaven National Lab in 2004 by Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:...

An Enzyme Reveals An Unexpected Inclusiveness

Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Protein Binding: Bacterial enzyme's active site welcomes both enantiomers of a chiral molecule at the same time.

Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Gets Nobel Prize

rekon | 10/08/2009

ndian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009

Chemistry Nobel Awards For year 2009

rekon | 10/08/2009

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level,

Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

krishpatel1212@gmail | 10/08/2009

Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Cracking chemistry's mystery may be a hard nut for many, but for this trio, including two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath, playing with chemistry is merely a fun. For their acumen and expertise in chemistry, they have been awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The announcement