Stunning image of Olympicene - the smallest possible five-ringed structure (w/video)

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) Scientists have created and imaged the smallest possible five-ringed structure about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and you'll probably recognise its shape. A collaboration betwe ...
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Mars 'has life's building blocks' - Mark Mardell - BBC News

Source: RichardDawkins.net

By MARK MARDELL - BBC NEWS Added: Mon, 28 May 2012 05:31:23 UTC New evidence from meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars. The study found that carbon present in 10 meteorites, spanning more than four bil ...
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Norman Lichtin; wrote history of BU department

Source: Boston.com

When acrimonious contract talks between Boston University’s faculty and administration in 1979 proved divisive, Norman Lichtin, the chemistry department chairman, tried to remain a friend to all his colleagues. Troubled by the rift, Dr. Lich ...
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NMR Specialist- Northern Ireland

Source: Nature.com

NMR Specialist- Northern Ireland An excellent opportunity has arisen for an NMR Specialist to join a leading drug discovery company based in Northern Ireland. As a company they have a strong range of products and develop a vast range of inno ...
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Justine DaCosta, Name Dropping: Help for Hospice

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

Friends of Hospice hosted its 12th annual Fairways for Kids golf fundraiser on May 9 at Seascape Golf Resort. The tournament was co-chaired by Ginny Clark and Ginny Solari Mazry to benefit the Healthy Understanding of Gri ...
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Meteorite Shows Existence of Reduced Carbon on Mars

Source: SciTech Daily

This 4.5 billion-year-old rock, labeled meteorite ALH84001, is believed to have once been a part of Mars and to contain fossil evidence that primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. Image credi ...
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Importance of Chemistry

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Compounds from Mars meteors not biological

Source: United Press International

WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Organic molecules in Martian meteorites, which on Earth are linked with life, were not formed on the Red Planet by biological activity, researchers say. Carbon-based molecules that make up the building blocks ...
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Considering Careers Before Spending 100K

Source: Crosswalk

Recommend this article to your friends. A week after graduation, Laura was hauling her luggage back up to her bedroom at her parent’s house. Everything was just as she had left it before leaving for college. She surveyed ...
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