Feb

25

Teaching Without a Textbook

February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

No Books, No Problem. ‘Thanks to a forward-thinking teacher, chemistry students quickly learn to love leaving the textbook behind.’

Feb

25

Mimicking Nature’s Chemical Strategies

February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Chemistry Au Naturel. ‘Mimicking nature’s clean and efficient ways. Over the past 3.5 billion years, cells have evolved into superlatively sophisticated chemical factories capable of churning out thousands of the most complex and capable molecules known. Whether it’s translating DNA into proteins, responding to a viral attack, or transforming sugar into cellular fuel, many [...]

Feb

19

Water-Solid Interface

February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

When Water Meets a Solid Surface. ‘A new technique has produced detailed and surprising molecular images of the water-solid interface, revealing intermixed regions of ice-like and liquid-like structures.’

Feb

19

Arctic Pollution

February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Arctic turning into chemical dump. ‘The Arctic is becoming a chemical dump, with higher concentrations of some man-made chemicals than the countries where the pollutants were made, according to a new report.’

Feb

19

Chemistry is Back!

February 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Chemistry is back! University’s Chemistry Expansion. ‘Newcastle University is expanding its chemistry course just months after scrapping degrees in pure physics.’

Feb

18

Science. gov Alert Service

February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Science.gov offers new alert service. ‘DOE and other federal science agencies help public stay “alert” to the latest R&D results with Science.gov Alert Service.’

Feb

18

Chemistry Teacher Arrested

February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Chemistry Teacher Arrested for Teaching Explosive Reactions. [via Findory]
Update: Teacher Accused Of Teaching Bomb-Making. (with video)

Feb

18

Come and Get It

February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Reality of Open-Access Journal Articles. ‘Open access is no longer just an idea to be deconstructed, analyzed, and reanalyzed. We now have information about how publishers are practicing it and how scholars and researchers are reacting to it. The really intriguing questions about the topic today deal with the reality of open access and [...]

Feb

18

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Inside a Free-Speech Firestorm

February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Inside a Free-Speech Firestorm. ‘Hours after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Ward Churchill compared the victims to the Nazis. A professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he wrote in an essay that those killed in the World Trade Center were not innocent civilians but “little Eichmanns”.’

Feb

17

Liquid Carbon

February 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Liquid Carbon Chemistry. The Chemistry of Carbon above 5000 K and 100 Atmospheres of Pressure.

Feb

17

Oxygen Sponge Converts Hydrogen into Water

February 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Oxygen Sponge Saves Energy During The Production Of Plastics. ‘Hydrogen is released during the conversion of ethane and propane to ethylene and propylene, raw materials for the production of plastics. Using oxygen from a so-called oxygen sponge to convert hydrogen into water saves a lot of energy during the production process.’

Feb

16

IBM Scientists Control the Charge State of an Atom

February 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment

IBM scientists control the charge state of an individual atom. ‘A milestone in the development of future atomic-scale devices.’ (nice pictures available)

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