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	Engineers develop higher-energy liquid-transportation fuel from sugar Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth. [ Sunday 24th June 2007 ] More ...   Pieces of Catalyst Puzzle Explained Catalysts speed up chemical reactions, as in your car’s catalytic converter, and they even double as clichés, as in “catalyst for change,” but how they work remains a mystery. [ Wednesday 06th June 2007 ] More ...   New Discovery Could Lead to Better Plastics In the late 1960s, the memorable advice given to a certain graduate of movie fame was to go into plastics. Forty years later, Caltech chemical engineering professor Julia Kornfield would like to add the word "shish-kebabs." [ Tuesday 22nd May 2007 ] More ...   Asian dust plume might sway U.S. climate: scientists Asian desert dust and city pollution is swirling in vast plumes across the Pacific to North America, interacting with storms and possibly spurring climate change, an airborne scientist said on Tuesday. [ Wednesday 16th May 2007 ] More ...   Expedition to promote alternative fuels A U.S. team plans to drive from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole later this year to demonstrate the viability of alternative energy sources to replace fossil fuels, a spokesman said Monday. [ Tuesday 01st May 2007 ] More ...   Where Is The Proton? Scientists Discover Footprints Of Shared Protons This week in Science, Yale researchers present "roadmaps" showing that shared protons, a common loose link between two biological molecules, simply vibrate between the molecules as a local oscillator, rather than intimately entangling with the molecular vibrations of the attached molecules. [ Tuesday 17th April 2007 ] More ...   Scientists weigh downside of palm oil Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared. [ Monday 09th April 2007 ] More ...   US Scientists Create Polio Virus With Mail Order Chemicals Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous disease virus from scratch in the lab, using chemicals obtained by mail order and the publicly available knowledge of the virus's code. [ Sunday 08th April 2007 ] More ... 1 2 Next