Merck inaugurates new Material Research Center, the largest single R&D investment in the chemicals business sector to date

New Material Research Center

Waste: Feedstock For Renewable Diesel
Neste Oil develops technology for turning waste into feedstock for renewable diesel

Cracking Open Oysters
The chemical glue that allows oysters to stick to rocks has been identified; it could be used in boating and medicine

Promoting Natural Painkiller
New drug enables the body's internal answer to the cannabis chemical THC, effectively control pain at the site of an injury

Pallada-Bacteria
Biosorption of palladium from water turns industrial waste directly into C–C bond forming catalysts

Awarded: R. Schlögl and J. Lehmann
DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld

Transformers For CERN
ABB will supply high-efficiency transformers to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Intellectual Drought
Exposure to manganese at levels common in groundwater associated with intellectual impairment in children

Bursting Cancer’s Bubble
Silica balls could help locate breast cancers, reduce the need for second surgeries and minimize pre-surgical discomfort

New Air Products Director
Air Products board elects Chadwick C. (Chad) Deaton new director