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January 31, 2005

Refiner Settles With EPA and Justice

ConocoPhillips agrees to spend $525 million on air pollution control equipment.

Catalytic Performance

New catalyst formulation for use in automobiles doesn't need precious metals for high efficiency.

Global Warming

Experts convened by three policy institutes issue a blunt warning about climate change.

Imaging Unlocked

Fluorescent rhodamine lights up in cells with help of a trimethyl lock.

Dow In China

Company plans an R&D center in China that will employ 600 people.

January 28, 2005

National Academies Announces 2005 winners

Four chemists are among 17 scientists recognized with awards.

Chemical Earnings

Industry’s strong fourth quarter continued the winning streak with double-digit growth.

Editing Nano Letters

Harvard chemistry professor Charles Lieber has been named coeditor of ACS nanoscience journal.

January 27, 2005

Richard Zare Wins 2005 Wolf Prize

Award cites his seminal contributions to physical and analytical chemistry.

Methane Monooxygenase

Structure of ubiquitous membrane metalloenzyme hints at how nature converts CH₄ into CH₃OH.

NSF Report Shows Rise In Chemistry Ph.D.s

January 26, 2005

Bowl-Shaped Aromatic Anion Contains Nitrogen

Synthesis may lead to investigations of system reactivity and metal binding.

Fuel Cells Rally

Developers of proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells predict an automotive revolution.

January 25, 2005

Frigid Titan Harbors Exotic Chemistry

Saturn's moon has a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and methane.

Quorum-Sensing Agent Has Dual Role

Compound undergoes an intramolecular reaction to form a product with a different function.

Cargill To Buy Out Dow In Venture

Joint venture operates a $300 million plant in Nebraska.

January 24, 2005

Supramolecular Sensor

As in biological systems, binding of an analyte triggers a catalytic reaction that creates a signal.

Addiction Brake

Neuroscientists discover how an alkaloid reduces cravings for drugs of abuse.

Sun Protection

A carotenoid produced by plants in bright sunlight protects them during photosynthesis.

Custom Chemicals

At Informex, industry signals it is looking to biopharmaceuticals and to business in Asia.

January 21, 2005

DuPont Dow Settles Rubber Litigation

Elastomers joint venture will pay government and customers.

Huygens Touches Down

After landing on Titan, the probe sent back images and other data from an alien world.

January 20, 2005

'Clear Skies' A Dirtier Policy

NRC says President's plan unlikely to cut emissions as much as current law.

January 19, 2005

Open Access On Hold

NIH delays release of its plan to make research articles freely available.

January 18, 2005

Reducing Alkenes Like Nature Does

Enantioselective organocatalytic hydride reductions of ,-unsaturated aldehydes achieved.

January 17, 2005

Protein Dynamics

Technique determines a protein's structure and its range of motion simultaneously.

Stuffed Fullerenes

Researchers insert hydrogen into a buckyball and close it back up.

Sorting Evidence

Microfluidic device rapidly separates sperm cells from epithelial cells.

Transport Tragedy

Train wreck and chlorine spill in South Carolina revive questions about rail and tank car safety.

January 14, 2005

Chemistry On TV

Chemistry episode is part of '100 Greatest Discoveries in Science' series.

Perchlorate

New study could settle debate on a safe limit of the pollutant in drinking water.

Union Merger

The two largest labor unions for workers in the chemical industry agree to merge.

January 13, 2005

Homeland Security Chief

President Bush has nominated federal judge Michael Chertoff to head DHS.

EPA issues draft risk assessment on PFOA

Chemical used in making Teflon poses relatively low risk of noncancer health effects.

More ammo for Huntington's disease arsenal

Compound that inhibits protein aggregation could lead to therapeutics.

ChiRex founders launch pharmaceutical services firm

January 12, 2005

Oxygen Gives New Life To Art

NASA technology developed for testing satellite materials is found to restore damaged paintings.

January 11, 2005

Investigating Vioxx Toxicity

Air oxidation of arthritis drug's anion forms a potentially toxic product.

Indium-Tin Oxide Linked To Respiratory Disease

Crucial chemical for liquid-crystal display manufacturing may be health hazard.

Bribe Costs Monsanto $1.5 Million

Company owns up to charges and other problems in Indonesia case.

Funding For NSF Down

Some people question whether 2005 cut in agency's budget is payback for scientists' political activity.

January 10, 2005

Julius Axelrod Dead At 92

Nobel Laureate revealed how brain cells talk to one another, a finding that led to modern-day depression drugs.

Pentagonal Honeycombs

Custom-made molecules assemble into liquid-crystal networks that could lead to useful materials.

Braking Brain Disorders

Certain antibiotics reduce excess glutamate in the brain, providing a neuroprotective effect.

Natural Gas Policy

Industry and environmental groups want Congress to push for more production and greater efficiency.

Earnings Toll

Rising costs for raw materials hit fourth-quarter earnings for at least three chemical companies.

Congress Returns

The 109th Congress faces a full legislative agenda, including 2004 leftovers.

January 7, 2005

Another Train Wreck And Chlorine Leak (Updated: Jan. 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m.)

Nine dead and 5,400 evacuated in Graniteville, S.C., as chlorine leak spreads from crash site.

Ridge Unfurls A Unified National Plan

Effort orchestrates a synchronized response to terrorism and major natural and man-made disasters.

Tsunami Relief

Chemical and drug firms contribute to disaster relief in the Indian Ocean region.

Emissions Trading

European firms, facing Kyoto protocol targets, begin trading carbon emissions allowances.

ACS Election

Eric C. Bigham has been voted director for District IV.

January 6, 2005

IG Outlines Management Challenges At EPA

Agency lacks plans to meet strategic goals and needs to enhance homeland security effort.

January 5, 2005

DuPont Dow Elastomers Being Dissolved

Breakup comes amid government price-fixing investigation.

January 4, 2005

Flame Retardants In Dust

Dust and dryer lint may be significant PBDE sources.

Light Shed On Photolyases

X-ray structure reveals how these enzymes use light to repair DNA damaged by UV radiation.

January 3, 2005

Liquefied Natural Gas Risks

Tanker breach could result in heavy losses more than one-quarter mile from ship.

Bio-Olefins

Catalytic method converts soy-based biodiesel to valuable chemicals.

Titanic Prospects

Cassini spacecraft successfully deploys Huygens probe.

Monsanto Blinks

Biotech seeds producer sets up $285 million reserve to cover spin-off Solutia's liabilities.