Dicer Yields Its Structural Secrets

Architecture of RNAi enzyme suggests it measures and then snips its substrates.

Rhodia To Exit Custom Synthesis

Firm is selling business to India's Shasun Chemicals.

DOE Settles Hanford Suit

Agreement appears to end a two-year court battle over proposed waste shipments to the former nuclear site.

Givaudan And IFF Plan To Revamp

Moves may be coincidental rather than emblematic of a struggling industry.

Assessing Risk

White House proposes government-wide benchmarks to evaluate numerous risks.

Chemists Forge New Bonds In India

Meeting brings U.S. and Indian scientists together to share ideas and build networks.

New Fulbright

Award for foreign science students is part of State Department effort to promote U.S. education.

Ladder Polyethers In A Snap

Directing group governs regioselective epoxide opening, then is jettisoned.

Clot Plot Thickens

A phosphate polymer emerges as an unsung player in blood chemistry.

Business Concentrates

Stock Indexes Mixed

Chemicals and biotech improve in fourth quarter, but pharmaceuticals decline slightly.

C&EN Talks With Stephen F. Paul

Princeton University physics professor promotes a domestic designer fuel.

Government & Policy Concentrates

Incentives Boost Coal Gasification

Higher energy prices are making technologies to gasify the nation's vast coal reserves attractive again.

Fraud & Consequences

Stem cell research community is shocked by findings that landmark work by South Korean was a con.

Science & Technology Concentrates

Bar Coding Life

A global project to create a new framework for identifying all biological species gains momentum.

E-Learning Begins To Find Its Niche

Simulations and online tutorials to augment traditional learning are slowly being put to use.

Scenes From Pacifichem 2005

2006 ACS National Awards

Barany, Crim, Davison, Levy, Meijer, Solomon, and Žemva.

The Hidden Cost Of Coal

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