Mar

30

Sugar Alternatives

March 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

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. [...]

Mar

30

Exhibition: History of Chocolate

March 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

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

March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

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

25

Burying Carbon Dioxide for Enhanced Oil Recovery

March 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Warming weapon? Oil giants plan to bury CO2: Energy groups Statoil and Shell plan the world’s biggest project to bury carbon dioxide beneath the seabed in a billion-dollar project off Norway to raise oil output and curb global warming, the firms announced Wednesday. New green plan for oil recovery: Oil giant Shell and Norwegian state-owned [...]

Mar

24

With the Help of Calixarenes

March 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Chemistry cleans river waters. ‘Mercury pollution is poisoning many Latin American rivers. The Argentinean, Brazilian, Peruvian, British, Swedish and Spanish researchers working on the Mercury project are now tackling this specific problem with the aid of some remarkable supramolecules.’

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