Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is commonly found as a clear gas. But squish some hydrogen with an enormous amount of pressure and it will turn into a metal, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.
This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to an Israeli scientist who "fought a fierce battle against established science" and "fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday.
An explosion caused by a chemical reaction at a University of Maryland-College Park chemistry lab caused minor injuries to two students and forced authorities to evacuate the four-story building, according to the Prince George's Fire Department.
Casey Anthony, accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008, was determined competent to proceed with her capital murder trial after she was examined by three psychologists over the weekend, the judge said Monday.
Emergency workers are evaluating a Boston College student who was at the scene of a chemistry lab explosion Saturday morning, authorities said.
It's an audacious plan: to turn cancer into a manageable, if chronic, condition that patients can live with for a very long time. That's what Gilead Sciences wants to do, and it brings unusual credibility to the task. Gilead, the second-most-valuable independent biotech company (after Amgen), transformed HIV in much the same way over the past decade. Its Atripla, combining three medications in a single pill, is the most prescribed HIV treatment in America and is expected to remain so for years.
Could firefighters one day use an electric wand to zap flames away?
The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three professors for a tool to make carbon-carbon bonds in organic chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced.
Since the time of Nicolaus Copernicus five centuries ago, people have wondered whether there are other planets like Earth in the universe. Today scientists are closer than ever to an answer -- and it appears to be that the Milky Way galaxy is rich in Earth-sized planets, according to astronomer Dimitar Sasselov.
Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov searches for Earthlike planets that may answer questions about the origin of life elsewhere.
A critical look at what we consume, where it comes from and where it goes after we are done with it.
Investigators have found the knife believed to have been used in the stabbing of a University of California, Los Angeles student in a chemistry lab, authorities said Friday.
Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out the thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome -- work that paves the way for new antibiotics.
The term "dirty money" is for real.
One of the many jobs that Lee Edwards took on during his 25-year career at BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, was leading the energy giant's effort to re-brand itself. Today as the CEO of Virent Energy Systems, a seven-year-old biofuel startup in Madison, Wis., he is truly trying to move beyond petroleum. With a proprietary process it calls "BioForming," Virent says it can turn plant sugars from corn, switchgrass, and other crops into gasoline that has a higher energy density than ethanol.
You might have thought that recycling is limited to paper, plastics and glass. Well, think again. A Californian company is developing a new technique for recycling carbon dioxide, or CO2, and turning it back into fuel.
Course materials can cost students hundreds of dollars a semester. But there are often cheaper options from overseas
Spanish scientists unveil an electronic "tongue" that can tell the difference between a chardonnay and a macabeu
NASA's Phoenix lander has discovered a toxic chemical in soil near Mars' north pole, dimming hopes for finding life on the Red Planet, the probe's operators said Monday.
A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887
CNN's Miles O'Brien and our SciTech team give us a tour of the Phoenix Mars Lander!
Hardly a week goes by without news of antioxidants' health-promoting benefits. Experts believe these nutritional substances may help prevent heart disease, fight certain cancers, ward off dementia, and even slow certain aging processes.
Yellowstone's geysers and vents may hold the keys to pharmaceutical and industrial breakthroughs. But should the park profit from it?
Fortune: Chemical reactionupdated: Thu Mar 22 2007 05:47:00
Not so long ago the scene inside Room 406 of the U.S. Senate's Dirksen building would have been inconceivable. There, on a mid-February morning, sat top executives of three old-economy behemoths - ...
The digital world has just gone molecular.
For the helmet-haters: a soft beanie lined with elastic polymers that stiffen upon wipeout
The Cassini spacecraft's most recent flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, found that its upper atmosphere is full of complex organic material, a discovery that could help unlock the mystery of life on our own planet, scientists said Monday.
Cornell University chemists are looking for ways to take the petroleum out of plastics. And nature has provided one green alternative, in the form of oranges.
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The Cassini spacecraft has returned its first images of the smog-shrouded moon Titan that reveal surface features, including a bright area euphemistically named Xanadu that so far eludes explanation.
The Next Big Thing? Please. The concept is so hackneyed that I couldn't help but groan a little when tech fund manager Steve Salopek embraced it at a press briefing I attended in April. I was struc...
Businesses are drowning, just drowning in data. And they asked for it. Computers today make it relatively easy for industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to computer chips to oil exploration to am...
One of the most exciting technologies of the new millennium is about to move a few steps closer to the mass market. The technology is fuel cells, almost universally seen as an energy-conserving, lo...
UCLA professor James Heath is trying to build a computer--though you wouldn't know it from the lab where he works. There's hardly a sliver of silicon to be found. No one wears a bunny suit. In one ...
Bell Labs gave birth to the transistor. And the laser. And motion pictures. And long-range TV broadcasts. And real-time language translation. And on and on, so that over time this venerable institu...
In recent years, one of the most powerful forces outside of nature--the profit motive--has impelled companies to clean up their manufacturing processes and products. It pays to be green. To be sure...
Like music fans sliding CDs into stereos, scientists in biochemistry and pharmaceuticals labs have recently been loading little square thingies called LabChips into novel, toaster-sized machines. T...
Bright-eyed, his silver hair a little wild at the fringes, Dr. Ferdinand Panik, 56, clearly relishes piloting a very special Mercedes vehicle briskly past the apple orchards on the outskirts of Nab...
BEHIND the red brick walls of two unprepossessing buildings in a science park in Rockville, Maryland, l35 scientists and entrepreneurs are laying the groundwork for a new epoch in biology and medic...
Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon Nov 01 1993 00:01:00
IONICS Sometimes the market is slow to embrace a new technology. Take the case of Ionics, a water treatment and supply company in (of all places) Watertown, Massachusetts. Ionics was founded in 194...
! Rob Phillips works in a laboratory that seems like it belongs in a science- fiction movie. It is filled with sharp smells, gurgling sounds, odd-shaped glassware (called beakers and flasks) -- and...
WHY IS this scientist smiling? Because he may have won a small prize in the cold fusion lottery. No, not those $25 boxes of pennies -- the pennies are there to shield his instruments from any gamma...
WALL STREET is sending a persistent message to its onetime favorites, the health biotech companies: You don't have the kind of future you thought you had. Some of you figured you would turn into th...
THOSE THREE intent young scientists in the photograph have achieved a rare and potentially highly profitable feat: a sudden leap forward that changes something that couldn't be done into a commerci...
Simon Ramo -- the Ramo in Bunker-Ramo, a computer venture, and the ''R'' in TRW, the giant defense electronics company -- has advised Presidents and served on the boards of corporations and univers...
Stretching for more than three miles along the east bank of the Rhine River in Ludwigshafen, West Germany, is BASF, Europe's largest chemical complex. From the second floor of the squat main admini...
HOLLYWOOD honors its stars by casting their footprints in cement. Wall Street firms put portraits of their founders in gilt frames. But at the New Jersey headquarters of Merck & Co., office corrido...
LIVING ORGANISMS and modern industrial society have an intriguing thing in common: both depend to a large extent on catalysts -- small amounts of substances that speed up chemical reactions but com...
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