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July 30, 2004

Chemistry Olympiad

Chinese students score gold; U.S. students take four silver medals.

July 29, 2004

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Dies at 88

Codiscoverer of the double helix succumbs to colon cancer.

Opera House In Miniature

Scientists create a micrometer-sized version of a famous architectural landmark.

Ferro Chokes On Accounting Charges

Firm's stock falls sharply on the disclosure.

EU Launches 'Pharming' Plan

Consortium may develop AIDS drug grown in corn.

Worth The Weight

A new mass analyzer holds promise for making miniature mass spectrometers.

July 28, 2004

DOE Expands Security Stand-Down

Energy secretary orders inventory of classified material, training programs; lab management contract is at stake

Economy—It's A Go For Chemicals

Forecasts indicate business is better and will continue to improve through next year.

July 27, 2004

Mylan Buys King

An acquisition moves branded drugs into the fold of a generics company.

Polymeric Nitrogen

Single-bonded nitrogen allotrope, if harnessed, could serve as a propellant or explosive.

Foreign Science

Multiagency effort explores ways to improve science literacy among foreign service officers.

July 26, 2004

Open Access

Government committees in the U.S. and U.K. call for free access to scientific literature.

Electron Transfer

IBM researchers add an electron to a single gold atom.

ACS Elections

Five petition candidates make this year's fall elections some of the most competitive.

July 23, 2004

More Chemical Units Change Hands

Investors win Clariant's electronic materials, while Rockwood takes Johnson Matthey's pigments.

Bay Area Biotech

Amid fears about offshoring, report offers positive biotech job news in California.

Dow In Oman

Dow Chemical plans ethylene cracker and three world-class polyethylene units.

July 22, 2004

9-11 Commission Releases Comprehensive Report

Volume catalogs what happened, what went wrong, and what needs to be done to protect U.S. from another terrorist attack.

Science Funding Cut

Appropriations subcommittee cuts NSF, NASA, and EPA budgets to support veterans programs.

Sumitomo Sets LCD Components

New plant continues electronic chemicals expansion.

UCB To Sell Films Business

Sale seen as start of firm’s chemical industry exits.

July 21, 2004

TB Target

A sulfotransferase enzyme offers new focus for designing drugs for tuberculosis.

Richard T. Johnson

Pioneer neuroscientist says major improvements are needed in U.S. prion research programs.

July 20, 2004

Eye On Organics

Fluorescence method allows imaging and tracking of chemicals in plant cells.

Defining Graduate Students

National Labor Relations Board says Brown graduate students are not employees.

Targeting Cancer Cells

Quantum dots simultaneously target and image cancer cells in live mice.

Improving Pharma

Shott technology center supports an effort to improve fine chemical manufacturing.

July 19, 2004

Bayer to Buy Roche OTC Line

Sale leaves Roche focused on prescription drugs and diagnostics.

Magnetic Moment

Detection of single-electron spins advances magnetic resonance force microscopy.

Ocean Chemistry

Rising oceanic CO₂ levels may harm marine organisms.

Structural Surprise

Active site of drug-metabolizing enzyme proves unexpectedly small.

Testing Europe's Regulations

Chemical industry and the EU plan a test of proposed REACH program

July 16, 2004

Classified Data Lost At Weapons Labs

Missing electronic storage disks at Los Alamos and Sandia Labs spur investigations.

Bayer Makes Up Mind On Lanxess Launch

Company decides to spin off basic chemicals unit to shareholders.

Butler Report

U.K. panel finds that intelligence on prewar Iraq was seriously flawed.

Pharma Sale

Bankrupt Solutia plans sale of its pharmaceutical services unit.

July 15, 2004

Firm Imports Cuban Drugs

U.S. permits licensing of promising anticancer compounds.

Hyperbranched Polyynes Show Novel Properties

Process them like plastics, thermally cure them, and make them into magnets.

Clariant Continues To Slim

Johnson Matthey will buy the firm's Lancaster Synthesis unit; electronic materials may be next.

Akzo Nobel Adds To Coatings Operations

Two plants open in China, two more are under construction there.

July 14, 2004

Report Supports Hubble Mission

National Academies release interim report recommending telescope-servicing mission

Rings In Color

Cassini data reveal details about Saturn's rings and Titan's surface.

Robert Dynes

New University of California president grapples with budget woes, lab management

July 13, 2004

Plant De Triomphe

New polytrimethylene terephthalate plant is critical for the strategies of both Shell and its partner.

Mass Spec Sensitivity Record

Technique achieves yoctomole sensitivity.

Linking Patients And Scientists

NIH nears completion of clinical center to speed advances from bench to bedside.

July 12, 2004

Making Dendrimers

New synthetic route gives yields higher than those achieved with any other reactions.

Chemical Plan

Europe wants a sustainable growth plan for its chemical industry.

Hollow Polymers

Nanotubes prepared from copolymers can be loaded with water-soluble compounds.

Chasing Dictyostatin

Two independent groups report first total syntheses of promising anticancer agent.

July 9, 2004

Nuclear Waste

Federal Appeals Court Rules In Yucca Mountain Case.

Senate Report Slams CIA

No recommendations are offered to correct the agency's failures.

Spider Venom

Toxins' membrane interactions block opening and closing of ion-channel proteins.

Smoking Gun

Chemical compound in smoke from burning plant material promotes seed germination.

Labor Statistics

Recovery in jobs is still far from complete.

Spending Bills

Congress has all but given up on passing most of the 13 appropriations bills for fiscal 2005.

July 8, 2004

DOE Releases Flood Of Yucca Mountain Data

Millions of pages released, but it’s still unclear if legally required docket complete.

Location Counts

Changing an enzyme’s cellular address alters its specificity.

July 7, 2004

Amy Cannon Is Hancock Awardee

Environmentally benign, dye-sensitized solar cell merits prize.

Apollo To Buy Borden

KKR to unload Borden Chemical to another equity firm.

July 6, 2004

From Small Things, Big Things Will Come

For Degussa, science-to-business center is new way to turn research into products.

July 5, 2004

Enzyme By Design

Computational design and directed evolution convert receptor protein into enzyme.

Well Connected

Nanowire's alternating metallic and semiconducting segments lead to nanoscale integrated circuits.

New Journal Editor

George Schatz is named editor-in-chief of ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Plant Nitrification

Nitrogen-cycle process thought to occur only in microorganisms is found in someplants.

Chemical Weapons

Origin of mustard agent leak at Aberdeen Proving Ground is being investigated.

July 2, 2004

Saturn Reveals A Little

A giant pulse of oxygen, dirty ice are observed, but mysteries remain.

Pharma Perspectives

Report urges industry to reassess its pricing policies.

Fluorotelomers

EPA and industry can't agree, so agency will study degradation of fluorinated alcohols.

Chemical Weapons

Origin of mustard agent leak at Aberdeen Proving Ground is being investigated.

July 1, 2004

In Saturn's Orbit

Safely passing through rings, Cassini spacecraft begins four-year study of the giant planet.

More Graduate Students Enrolling In Science And Engineering

Bacterial Role In Arsenic Release

Lubrizol Sets Noveon Layoffs

Merck Expands Alnylam Pact