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New Material May Reveal Inner Workings Of Hi-temp Superconductors

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Measurements taken at NIST may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Wins HP Innovation Award

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) he universe around us can be expressed as numbers, and those numbers in pattern paint a picture: a network of friends from the vastness of the Internet; travel patterns among residents of cold climates; or a common factor among victims of a...

Researchers Analyze 'the Environmentalist's Paradox'

(American Institute of Biological Sciences) Researchers writing in the September issue of BioScience examine four possible explanations for why human well-being is increasing despite the global degradation of ecosystem services. Gains in food production, technological innovation...

Researchers Develop Simulation To Better Understand The Effects Of Sound On Marine Life

(University of California - San Diego) A combination of the biology of marine mammals, mechanical vibrations and acoustics has led to a breakthrough discovery allowing scientists to better understand the potential harmful effects of sound on marine mammals such as whales and dolphins.

Case Western Reserve University And Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay Connecting

(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have reached a memorandum of understanding designed to build on the academic and research strengths of both institutions. The agreement is effective for five years and...

University Of Houston, Partners Awarded $4.2 Million DOE Grant For Magnet Energy Storage Research

(University of Houston) The University of Houston and three other institutions have received a $4.2 million grant from the US Department of Energy to develop a superconducting magnet energy storage system device that could revolutionize the nation's electrical power grid.

4 PNNL Scientists Elected To The Washington State Academy Of Sciences

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Four scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. They join other scientists and engineers from across the state who have been recognized...

CAE USA wins USAF contract to upgrade C-5 training devices

(NYSE: CAE)(TSX: CAE) - CAE USA today announced it has been awarded a contract from the United States Air Force (USAF) initially valued at more than US$10 million to upgrade two C-5 Galaxy weapon systems trainers (WSTs). The contract includes options to upgrade additional C-5 WSTs as...

Vulnerability In Commercial Quanto Cryptography

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg together with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen have recently developed and tested a technique exploiting...

NSF Announces Future Internet Architecture Awards

(National Science Foundation) The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation announced today awards for four new projects, each worth up to $8 million over three years, as part of the Future Internet Architecture program.

Obama Package Includes Equipment & Plant Write-Offs

3 hours ago | News

President Obama this week unveiled a tax-and-spend package that would let businesses write off 100 percent of their investments in equipment and plants through 2011.

Minister: China Takeover of Potash a Bad Idea

3 hours ago | News

Saskatchewan Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd said he is concerned that a Chinese company would want to overproduce potash and drive down its price.

12 States Warned About Faulty Propane

3 hours ago | News

An Illinois-based gas distributor has warned officials in at least 12 states that some propane deliveries may have lacked enough of a chemical that gives a distinctive smell to the normally odorless gas.

Sawdust Explosion & Fire Guts Plant

4 hours ago | News

A fire at a plant that makes wood products started with a sawdust explosion that occurred as a loader was working at a storage bin.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

Calculating radiation exposures during use of (14)C-labeled nutrients, food components, and biopharmaceuticals to quantify metabolic behavior in humans.

Sep 4

(14)C has long been used as a tracer for quantifying the in vivo human metabolism of food components, biopharmaceuticals, and nutrients. Minute amounts (< or =1 x 10 (-18) mol) of (14)C can be measured with high-throughput (14)C-accelerator mass spectrometry (HT (14)C-AMS) in...

Elevated CO2 increases plant uptake of organic and inorganic N in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.

Aug 29

Resource limitations, such as the availability of soil nitrogen (N), are expected to constrain continued increases in plant productivity under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)). One potential but under-studied N source for supporting increased plant growth under...

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures.

Aug 7

The discovery of ribozymes led to the proposal of an RNA world, where a single type of molecule was supposedly capable of self-replication and chemical catalysis. We show here that both autocatalysis and organocatalysis can be engineered into a synthetic structure. The compound...

A chemical genetic screen for modulators of exocytic transport identifies inhibitors of a transport mechanism linked to GTR2 function.

Aug 5

Membrane and protein traffic to the cell surface is mediated by partially redundant pathways that are difficult to perturb in ways that yield a strong phenotype. Such robustness is expected in a fine-tuned process, regulated by environmental cues, that is required for...

Water — Is There Enough for Biofuels?

Water — Is There Enough for Biofuels?

4 hours ago

If water is to be ultimately regulated to ensure sustainability, communities must look to cap-and-trade systems or other mechanisms that create costs for unsustainable practices.

Formulating your Energy Master Plan

Formulating your Energy Master Plan

Sep 8

Industrial companies can realize cost, efficiency and operational benefits from an integrated energy master plan vs. a piecemeal approach to managing energy and sustainability initiatives.

Just What Is Innovation?

Just What Is Innovation?

Sep 7

If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth and that decline in long-term economic growth is assured.

Top Five Chemical Conspiracies

Top Five Chemical Conspiracies

Sep 8 | Video

Here at Chem.Info, we come across a lot of chemical-related conspiracies. We've selected five that are as interesting as they are controversial.

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Sep 1 | Video

As the American combat mission draws to a close, Iraq is trying to dramtically increase oil production to 12 million barrels a day.

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Aug 11 | Video

The remotely operated vehicles used by BP in the Gulf were an indispensable underwater workforce.

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Aug 12 | Video

How an inline high-shear mixer uses a solid-liquid injection system to achieve better powder dispersion than conventional eductive systems.