Mar

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Health and Medicinal Chemistry Resources

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Health, Safety & Medicinal Chemistry. ‘This is a collection of resources for chemistry as it relates to health and medicine. You’ll find facts on toxic chemicals and dangerous mixtures. Information on pharmacology and safety is also provided.’

Mar

30

Sugar Alternatives

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Sweet Chemistry: Symposium Explores Sugar Alternatives, Science Of Taste. ‘In an effort to fight high rates of diabetes and obesity, chemists are exploring a variety of sugar alternatives – including new artificial sweeteners and non-calorie sweetness enhancers – to satisfy America’s demand for sweet flavor with fewer health risks.’
Table of Sugar and Sugar Alternatives.
Sweet Talk. [...]

Mar

30

Exhibition: History of Chocolate

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Chocolate: Political Tool of Italy’s Medicis. ‘The Medicis, the family that dominated the Italian Renaissance, used chocolate as a powerful political tool to impose the Florentine taste in European courts, according to an exhibition that traces the history of chocolate from its arrival to Europe in the 16th century.’

Mar

29

The Importance of Oxygen

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Oxygen’s Gift. ‘A grand plot point in the history of life was the center-stage entry of oxygen into the atmosphere roughly 2.2 billion years ago. At the time, oxygen was a waste gas that emanated from the bacterial innovators of photosynthesis and posed mortal hazards to the anaerobic life that had been evolving for more [...]

Mar

29

Nanotubes Computer Modelling

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Computer model maps strengths, weaknesses of nanotubes. ‘In theory, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but in practice, scientists have struggled make nanotubes that live up to those predictions, in part, because there are still many unanswered questions about how nanotubes break and under what conditions. Because nanotubes are single molecules – about [...]

Mar

29

ClassesUSA

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ClassesUSA – Online Degree Programs from Accredited Colleges and Universities. ‘ClassesUSA.com, the Web’s leading online higher education portal, enables professionals to find an online degree or certificate program best suited to advancing their professional goals. ClassesUSA is also the publisher of Online Degrees Magazine, a bi-annual national publication designed to empower adults considering distance learning [...]

Mar

28

New Ways of Producing Ethanol

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New distillation method fuels interest in ethanol. ‘Vinod Khosla was a founder of Sun Microsystems, and then as a venture capitalist he helped a host of other technology companies get off the ground. These days, Khosla is still investing in technology, but much of it has nothing to do with the world of network computing [...]

Mar

28

World Water Forum Report

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World Water Forum Bulletin: Summary of the 4th World Water Forum. ‘The 4th World Water Forum convened in Mexico City, Mexico from Thursday, 16 March to Wednesday, 22 March 2006. The Forum is the largest international event on freshwater, and seeks to enable multi-stakeholder participation and dialogue to influence water policy-making at a global [...]

Mar

27

Developing Gold Nanoparticles Patterns with DNA

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Organizing Gold Nanoparticles with DNA. ‘Tiny billionth-of-a-meter sized clusters of gold atoms — gold “nanoparticles” — are being widely studied by scientists. They have many useful potential applications, from carriers for cancer-treatment drugs to digital data storage. But many of these applications, particularly those in electronics, require that the nanoparticles form ordered arrays that can [...]

Mar

27

Matter Antimatter Oscillations

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What happened to the antimatter? ‘ Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s meson (“B sub s”), suggest that the particle oscillates between matter and antimatter in one of nature’s fastest rapid-fire [...]

Mar

26

Teaching with Technology

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Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology. ‘The UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology consists of two modules, and each explores key issues in developing and teaching online courses with the use of technology. Module 1 provides resources for use in the selection of appropriate media to accomplish specific learning objectives. Module 2 [...]

Mar

26

Ice XIII and XIV

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Scientists identify two new forms of ice. ‘ Scientists have discovered two previously unknown forms of ice, frozen at temperatures of around minus 160 degrees Celsius. The researchers say they have solved the atomic structures of the new forms, which they have named ice XIII and XIV.’