Obama Package Includes Equipment & Plant Write-Offs

3 hours ago | News

President Obama this week unveiled a tax-and-spend package that would let businesses write off 100 percent of their investments in equipment and plants through 2011.

Minister: China Takeover of Potash a Bad Idea

4 hours ago | News

Saskatchewan Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd said he is concerned that a Chinese company would want to overproduce potash and drive down its price.

12 States Warned About Faulty Propane

4 hours ago | News

An Illinois-based gas distributor has warned officials in at least 12 states that some propane deliveries may have lacked enough of a chemical that gives a distinctive smell to the normally odorless gas.

Sawdust Explosion & Fire Guts Plant

4 hours ago | News

A fire at a plant that makes wood products started with a sawdust explosion that occurred as a loader was working at a storage bin.

Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

Calculating radiation exposures during use of (14)C-labeled nutrients, food components, and biopharmaceuticals to quantify metabolic behavior in humans.

Sep 4

(14)C has long been used as a tracer for quantifying the in vivo human metabolism of food components, biopharmaceuticals, and nutrients. Minute amounts (< or =1 x 10 (-18) mol) of (14)C can be measured with high-throughput (14)C-accelerator mass spectrometry (HT (14)C-AMS) in...

Elevated CO2 increases plant uptake of organic and inorganic N in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.

Aug 29

Resource limitations, such as the availability of soil nitrogen (N), are expected to constrain continued increases in plant productivity under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)). One potential but under-studied N source for supporting increased plant growth under...

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures.

Aug 7

The discovery of ribozymes led to the proposal of an RNA world, where a single type of molecule was supposedly capable of self-replication and chemical catalysis. We show here that both autocatalysis and organocatalysis can be engineered into a synthetic structure. The compound...

A chemical genetic screen for modulators of exocytic transport identifies inhibitors of a transport mechanism linked to GTR2 function.

Aug 5

Membrane and protein traffic to the cell surface is mediated by partially redundant pathways that are difficult to perturb in ways that yield a strong phenotype. Such robustness is expected in a fine-tuned process, regulated by environmental cues, that is required for...

Honeywell Manages Demand Response Programs For Two Midwest Utilities

Sep 9 | News

Roche recognised as global healthcare leader in Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Sep 9 | News

Fulton, Bedient to Represent Weyerhaeuser at UBS Global Paper and Forest Products Conference

Sep 8 | News

Roche announces Operational Excellence initiative(2)

Sep 3 | News

Monsanto Executives to Address Investor Conferences in September

Sep 2 | News

Top Five Chemical Conspiracies

Sep 8 | Video

Here at Chem.Info, we come across a lot of chemical-related conspiracies. We've selected five that are as interesting as they are controversial.

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Sep 1 | Video

As the American combat mission draws to a close, Iraq is trying to dramtically increase oil production to 12 million barrels a day.

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Aug 11 | Video

The remotely operated vehicles used by BP in the Gulf were an indispensable underwater workforce.

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Aug 12 | Video

How an inline high-shear mixer uses a solid-liquid injection system to achieve better powder dispersion than conventional eductive systems.