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July 23, 2008
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July 17, 2008

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Grinding and exposure to solvents trigger phase transformations and color changes

July 7, 2008

What's That Stuff? Bowling Balls

Knocking down pins and getting strikes with polymer science and surface chemistry

July 7, 2008

Took Only A Spark

This Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board video of Barton Solvents plant's destruction explains how a tank farm explosion and fire could have been avoided with proper equipment grounding and better handling of nonconductive flammable liquids

July 7, 2008

Follow The Green Spot

An ultraviolet-light-emitting diode creates a green cloud in a photochromic solution

June 23, 2008

Electron Microscopy For Chemists

Advances in imaging and elemental analysis move TEM toward the realm of analytical chemistry

June 23, 2008

Molecular Cage May Contain ... Nothing

Self-assembled prisms may enclose empty spaces rather than solvent

June 18, 2008

Chaperonin's Lid Works Like A Camera's Iris

Proteins lid shuts to give proteins privacy while folding inside

March 20, 2008

Switches For The Body Electric

Double-bond isomerization makes new ways to control nerve impulses available

March 20, 2008

Extrasolar Gas Discovered

Astronomers thrilled at sighting of methane on distant planet

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June 30, 2008

Materials Matter

Quirky library bridges the gap between matter and design

April 7, 2008

Surface Science's Sage

Priestley Medalist Gabor A. Somorjai has been advancing surface chemistry for nearly five decades

February 18, 2008

Harvesting Project SEED

C&EN catches up with past participants in ACS's 40-year-old mentoring program.

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August 21, 2007

Applications in Drug Discovery Podcasts

Couldn't make it to the Analytical Pavilion at the national meeting in Boston? Download C&EN podcasts of the speakers at the pavilion.

August 20, 2007

Roald Hoffmann: Chemist and Poet

Roald Hoffmann reads some of his poetry from the C&EN booth.

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June 11, 2007

CAS Timeline

100 years of progress from volunteers and index cards to cutting edge computers, see the progress of CAS.

June 11, 2007

The Incredible Vastness of Data

In the hands of CAS, a morass of data points ends up telling epic research stories, page by page.

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Blog: C&EN at CHEMRAWN

» C&EN's Amanda Yarnell reports from CHEMRAWN XII in Cape Town, South Africa, where chemists from around the continent and the world have gathered to discuss their efforts to ensure an adequate and sustainable supply of food for the people of Africa.

Live from Bali: The UN Climate Change Conference

» Daily dispatches of news and observations from The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia from Environmental Science & Technology's Erika Engelhaupt.

Blog: ACS Fall National Meeting 2007

» Daily dispatches from the 234rd National Meeting & Exposition in Boston from Chemical & Engineering News reporters.

Chemistry's Long Tail

» Taken together, three books describe a future for working chemists who will need something different from their professional society

Blog: Brazil!

» Daily dispatches from a 10-day research and meeting trip in Brazil from Chemical & Engineering News and Environmental Science & Technology reporters.

Blog: ACS Spring National Meeting 2007

» Daily dispatches from the 233rd National Meeting & Exposition in Chicago by Chemical & Engineering News reporters.

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» Daily dispatches from the 2006 ACS Fall National Meeting in San Francisco from Chemical & Engineering News reporters.

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» Daily dispatches from the 2006 ACS Spring National Meeting in Atlanta from Chemical & Engineering News reporters.

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» Daily dispatches from the AAAS 2006 Annual Meeting by a pair of Chemical & Engineering News reporters.

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