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Scandal Prompts China to Boost Food Safety

China says it will step up food safety efforts in the wake of a massive dairy scandal, expanding supervision to reach more of the country's countless small farms.

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

Do the Renewable Fuel Standard bill and other green legislation leave you stranded on the edge of your driver’s seat?

Lawmaker: Investigate Deaths Linked to Chinese Drywall

Sen. David Vitter has called for federal officials to do a more thorough review of the deaths of those who lived in homes that contained possibly toxic Chinese drywall.

China Jails Three Executives for Tainted Milk

China Jails Three Executives for Tainted Milk

Three Shanghai dairy executives have been sentenced to jail after milk products their company made were found to be tainted with an industrial chemical.

Atlas Copco Acquires Quincy Compressor

Atlas Copco completed the acquisition of Quincy Compressor from EnPro Industries. 

China Moves to Enforce Greenhouse Gas Goals

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Sunday it will spell out greenhouse gas emissions goals and monitoring rules for regions and sectors in its next five-year plan, with monitoring to show it is serious about curbing emissions.

Manufacturing Deals Grew Exponentially in Fourth Quarter 2009

The chemicals sector experienced an increase in deal volume but a decrease in value in Q4, while the metals sector showed an increase in deal volume and value compared to the previous quarter.

Eastman Chemical Buys Plant in China

Eastman Chemical Co. has acquired a cellulose-based specialty polymers manufacturing plant in China.

Horse — It’s What’s for Dinner

A Greene County lawmaker wants to make the slaughtering of horses for human consumption legal in Missouri, but he has lots of hurdles to clear.

Death Toll From Chinese Factory Gas Leak Hits 21

State media says 21 workers were killed by a gas leak at a factory in China earlier this week after executives were caught underreporting the number of deaths.

Death & Destruction of a Fluke Multimeter

9 hours ago | Video

Short of blowing it up with explosives, will he succeed, or will it live to measure another day?

IBM, Stanford Unveil Green Chemistry Breakthrough

11 hours ago | Video

Scientists from IBM and Stanford University have unveiled discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics.

Israel, Syria Have Nuclear Energy Ambitions

Israel, Syria Have Nuclear Energy Ambitions

12 hours ago | News

Mideast rivals Israel and Syria announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that it could bring new attention to its secretive activities.

Shell Stops Selling Gas to Iran

Shell Stops Selling Gas to Iran

12 hours ago | News

Royal Dutch Shell has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the latest company to cease business with a country that is increasingly targeted by U.S.-encouraged sanctions.

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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

SuperSite: dictionary of metabolite and drug binding sites in proteins.

Feb 10

The increasing structural information about target-bound compounds provide a rich basis to study the binding mechanisms of metabolites and drugs. SuperSite is a database, which combines the structural information with various tools for the analysis of molecular recognition. The...

MMsINC: a large-scale chemoinformatics database.

Feb 10

MMsINC (http://mms.dsfarm.unipd.it/MMsINC/search) is a database of non-redundant, richly annotated and biomedically relevant chemical structures. A primary goal of MMsINC is to guarantee the highest quality and the uniqueness of each entry. MMsINC then adds value to these...

Targeted small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinase B as anticancer agents.

Feb 10

Protein kinase B (PKB or Akt) is a central component of the PI3K - PKB - mTOR signalling cascade and is firmly established as an attractive target for pharmacological intervention in cancer. A number of small molecule inhibitors with well-defined, direct molecular interactions...

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Mar 9

The reality of the situation is that experts are predicting a world population of 9.5 billion by 2050 — meaning that our global food production will have to double.

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

Mar 8

Do the Renewable Fuel Standard bill and other green legislation leave you stranded on the edge of your driver’s seat?

Stalking the Weather Report

Stalking the Weather Report

Mar 8

Why do I check the weather three to five times a day? I think it's that weird habit that I go to when I am distracted, or bored, or shifting from one task to the next.

Egg Crisis 2010

Egg Crisis 2010

Mar 3

The situation is nothing to rival the coffee crisis of 2009 or the interoffice email crisis. We lost many good Cubites in the conflicts that ended with the dismantling of the Great Foam Wall.

Riddle Me This, Small Business

Riddle Me This, Small Business

Mar 2

Unlike banks, small businesses will hire people to produce goods and services.

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Feb 17 | Video

David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President, and CEO of Southern Company, reacts to President Obama's announcement regarding the first federal loan guarantees for new nuclear construction.

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Feb 11 | Video

A Canadian chemical manufacturer will store fifty chlorine-filled rail cars in Washington as a security measure during the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic games.

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Jan 27 | Video

A theoretical bench-top factory that uses nano-sized production lines to sort atoms and fabricate atomically-precise devices.

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Jan 20 | Video

Boeing is racing a hydroplane that uses a 50/50 blend of sustainable biofuel and jet fuel.