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Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-themed charm bracelets.

Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that the biochemical activity of a key player in cancer metastasis can be altered by the application of a direct physical force.

The process is simple, efficient and recycles otherwise-wasted energy into a useable form.

Bristol chemist recognised as one of the UKa s 'unsung heroes of science' Press release issued 11 March 2010 A chemistry teacher at the University of Bristol has been awarded a prestigious new award from the Royal Society , the national academy of science, for his inspiring engagement work in helping to promote science across the UK.

Scrutinizing a single molecule for more than a few milliseconds used to require effectively "stapling" it down, inhibiting its normal behavior.

Healthy brain shows response to pain from heat on the forearm. Different regions respond to that heat in vets with Gulf War syndrome two.

In one of the first such studies involving human patients with schizophrenia, researchers at UC Davis have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating cognitive deficits - poor attention, memory and problem-solving abilities - that accompany the delusions and hallucinations that are the ...

Wind and waves kick up spray, and bits of sodium chloride -- common table salt -- can permeate the air.

In many cases, the cause is a fungus. Not a mushroom like you see poking up out of the ground in the woods, but a network of branching, filamentary cells that botanists call 'hyphae'. In entertaining episodes our Chemical Reporter answers questions of our Podcast listeners on Chemistry in our everyday life.

Molecule could be used to cleanup Chernobyl and make future plants even safer. Mercouri Kanatzidis, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory , and Nan Ding, a chemist at Northwestern University , have discovered a little molecule that may make a big difference in the nuclear power debate by making nuclear plants ...

The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse common PET and plant-based plastics in the future.

WASHINGTON, DC , March 8, 2010 - The Supreme Court today sided with environmental advocates by declining to review a lower court ruling that forbid the U.S. EPA to exempt industrial polluters from regular emissions standards during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" events.

IBM researchers say they've found a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that may replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment.

How did non-living molecules come together in that primordial ooze to form the polymers of life? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that small molecules could have acted as "molecular midwives" in helping the building blocks of life's genetic material form long chains and may have assisted in selecting the base pairs ...

Only one thing stands in the way: The battery. Lithium-ion batteries appear to be on track to power growing numbers of electric vehicle from mainstream makers beginning when Nissan 's electric Leaf and Chevrolet 's range-extender Volt hit the road later this year.

Knowing enough about the way light is scattered through materials would allow physicists to see through opaque substances, such as the sugar cube on the right.

The King Cobra continues to weave its charm with researchers identifying a protein in its venom with the potential for new drug discovery and to advance understanding of disease mechanisms.

March 8th is Otto Hahn's birthday. Hahn was a German chemist who was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission.

Waters Corporation kicked off its 50th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy focused on its family of UPLC solutions.

STEVENS POINT -- Chemistry professor Michael Zach spent much of Feb. 23 explaining to members of Congress in Washington how his research, and that of his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, can help jump-start the economy.