Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in chemistry is going to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA and Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 'for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome'... — full story
Chemists synthesise herbal alkaloid
— 16 April 13:47The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a potent brew of alkaloids that have... — full story
It's the metal in the mussel that gives mussels their muscle power
— 13 April 14:31Researchers in California are reporting for the first time that metals are key ingredients that give the coatings of anchoring byssal threads of marine mussels their amazing durability.... — full story
Scientists discover pentagonal ice
— 7 April 15:00Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns. Researchers, in collaboration with University... — full story
New test to identify illegal steroids in cattle
— 19 February 10:10In an effort to curb the illegal use of steroids in the European beef industry, scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting the development of a new test that can identify steroids... — full story
Medieval walls in Spain contain bits of bone
— 14 January 10:10In a macabre discovery fit for Indiana Jones, archaeologists in Spain unearthed a 14th century brick oven with a unique role - to bake bones. Scientists report that the animal bones... — full story
Theory may help design tomorrow's sustainable polymer
— 11 December 12:59Tomorrow's speciality plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained... — full story
The Nobel Prize in chemistry is going to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath
— 7 October 09:58The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,... — full story