Air Products Bids For Airgas
Industrial Gases: Air Products offers $7 billion for the unwilling distributor.

After The Smoke Clears
Indoor Chemistry: Tobacco residues react with chemicals in air to form dangerous products.

Ardent Bement, NSF Director, To Step Down
Personnel: Bush appointee will leave on June 1 to move to Purdue University.

Amantadine's Double Bind
Mode of Action: New finding on flu drug's binding to virus proton channel could aid drug design.

Reaction-Driven Mixing
Fluid Dynamics: Chemical interactions drive convection and stirring.

More smokers than non-smokers accept HPV vaccination for their daughters
(American Association for Cancer Research) A parent's existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vac...

Few women take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer
(American Association for Cancer Research) Less than a quarter of one percent of women took tamoxifen in 2000 and 2005 to prevent breast cancer.Further research is recommended to expl...

Inhibiting serotonin in gut could cure osteoporosis
(Columbia University Medical Center) An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats, repor...

Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing
(Princeton University) Princeton University's Jason Petta has demonstrated a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its...

Prof. Stephen Hawking to visit Perimeter Institute and provide TV lecture across Canada
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, is pleased to announce that Prof. Stephen Hawking will ...