Chemistry

  1. Chemistry

    Supergoo Erases ‘Monument-al’ Nuclear Fallout

    From disposable diapers comes a technology that can be used to extract radionuclides off of the porous surfaces of buildings.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer fighting green tea may have a dark side

    This herbal remedy can short-circuit one of the few useful therapies for largely incurable blood cancers.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Melamine-tainted infant formula linked to kidney stones

    Three new studies link the melamine tainting of infant formula in China with a greatly elevated risk that babies will develop potentially dangerous, symptom-free kidney stones.

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  4. Chemistry

    New money for undergraduate research

    A new program will foster interdisciplinary physical-science research at predominantly undergraduate colleges.

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  5. Chemistry

    Nonstick chemicals linked to infertility

    Featured blog: Infertility doubled in women who had high concentrations of commercially produced nonstick chemicals polluting their blood.

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  6. Life

    Whipping fluids along in microlabs

    Researchers have detailed one way for hairlike structures to drive liquid in a "lab on a chip."

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  7. Earth

    Water-cleanup experiment caused lead poisoning

    Featured blog: Lead concentrations spiked in many children living in the nation's capital after the local water authority altered the treatment used to disinfect drinking water.

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  8. Quantum Physics

    Quantum information teleported between distant atoms

    A team is the first to transfer a qubit, which contains quantum information, from one atom to another, a feat that could aid quantum computing and secure communication.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Going nano to see viruses 3-D

    Nanoscale MRI-like machine images individual virus shapes; first step to seeing proteins in 3-D

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  10. Chemistry

    Molecules: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Molecules. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

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  11. Tech

    Hot new memory

    A study of the physics of phonons, quantum packets of heat, suggests that controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information.

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  12. Chemistry

    Of Presidents and Nobels

    It appears Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will soon have produced two Nobel laureates to offer White House counsel and directives on science policy.

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