American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...&EN ), ACS weekly newsmagazine. C&EN managing editor Ivan Amato wrote the compelling feature after interviews with scientists from academia, government, and industry who are working to address growing concerns about misuse of legitimate scientific research. Chemists have not worried enough about the c...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...highly sophisticated process, notes C&EN associate editor Linda Wang. The design of modern sandpaper, technically called a coasted abrasive, involves a complex interplay between the chemical properties of the abrasive material, adhesive, and the backing material, notes Wang. In her short feature, one of the...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
...ectronic device to its knees, writes C&EN senior editor Sophie L. Rovner. Electrical shorts caused by growth of these needle-like crystals have knocked out guided missiles and communications satellites, shut down a nuclear power plant, and caused heart pacemakers to fail. Tin whiskers have been a techn...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...EN ), ACS weekly newsmagazine. Written by senior editor Cheryl Hogue, it is the second of two exclusive C&EN articles exploring a little known environmental conundrum involving the silvery, liquid metal. In the first article ( http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/85/8527gov1.html ) Hogue explained how mil...Journal of Nuclear Medicine's impact grows, remains consistently high over past 5 years
...ation statistics, said Heinrich R. Schelbert, JNMs editor in chief. JNMthe professions most important and influential international journaldelivers significant, scholarly, peer-reviewed scientific and clinical research, noted the professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the University of Californi...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
... 6 percent annually. Written by C&EN associate editor Rachel A. Petkewich, the article describes how global pharmaceutical companies, best known for making medicines for humans, have animal health divisions that are devoting more effort to discovering and developing new kinds of medications for companio...Journal of Nuclear Medicine releases new research faster
...imaging and therapy," noted Heinrich R. Schelbert, editor in chief of SNM's flagship journal. "Researchers need to quickly communicate their discoveries so that others may benefit from their results and cite publications," he added. SNM members and journal subscribers will be able to read the latest researc...2007 Joint Assembly in Acapulco -- press conference schedule
..., business card, or letter of introduction from an editor of a recognized publication. Freelance science wr...nd published in 2006 or 2007; or a letter from the editor of a recognized publication assigning you to cover 2007 Joint Assembly. Public information officers...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 9, 2007
...ekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN senior editor Marc S. Reisch explains that these minute "envelopes" long have been used to protect active ingredients that might otherwise degrade before reaching their intended bodily destinations. "Lately, these envelopes have become part of elaborate new system...2007 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winner announced
...cluded European correspondent for Science and news editor with New Scientist. He spent five years as chief news and features editor with Nature, where he oversaw the launch of the news@nature.com web site. Aldhous's main interests...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 2, 2007
...y newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN associate editor Lisa Jarvis describes how venture capital firms ha...igital camera with a special lens, C&EN managing editor Ivan Amato captured the art [Hyperlink] hidden inside chromatography columns, glassware, and other l...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 25, 2007
...eekly newsmagazine. In the article C&EN senior editor Stephen K. Ritter points out that the global chemical industry already uses about 115 million tons of CO 2 annually as a chemical feedstock, that is, as a raw material to manufacture other chemicals and products. Products routinely produced from CO...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 18, 2007
...ekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN senior editor Marc S. Reisch explains that the technology termed membrane filtration also removes bacteria and chlorine-resistant parasites such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia . Starting with highly contaminated water, membrane filtration can produce potable ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 11, 2007
...mical corporations, the story notes. C&EN senior editor Bette Hileman highlights a number of potential sources of bias behind these inconsistent study outcomes, including the use of strains of rats that are insensitive to estrogen and choosing batches of animal feed that vary widely in their estrogenic ac...AIBS honors outstanding contributions to the biological sciences
...er for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and he is editor in chief of Issues in Ecology and on the board of ...dered . He currently is now the global development editor for The World , a coproduction of the BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH Boston. ...LA Times reporters receive Public Communications Award from American Society for Microbiology
...folklore from UC Berkeley, has been a reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times since 1990, covering the California coast and the worlds oceans for the last five years. For "Altered Oceans" he spent more than 18 months traveling around the world, interviewing experts, and immersing himself in scientific ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
...weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN senior editor Jeff Johnson points out that the proposals come at a time of growing fears about potential new nuclear powers, such as North Korea and Iran, and potential diversion of nuclear weapons into the hands of terrorists. The U.S. Department of Energys Nati...NAS announces Virtual Symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience
...isual Arts in New York City where she is chair and editor of ArtLab23. She is also the host of BioBlurb on WPS1 Art Radio. This event is made possible through the generous support of Ralph S. OConnor and the Marian and Speros Martel Foundation. It is sponsored by the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Pro...Scientist converts UK nuclear energy policy
...cording to Jonathan Leake, science and environment editor at The Sunday Times, where he has written extensively about the British nuclear power industry. From the time of his appointment in 2000, the accomplished chemist, who is unafraid of controversy and deeply contemptuous of novelist Michael Crichton......iting lecturer at Brunel University (U.K.). She is editor of the 2003 book, Managing Environmental Risk and is writing another on novel waste management technologies, which should be published late in 2007. She is a member of the U.K. Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs Advisory Committee on Ha...