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• ACS Again Appeals Leadscope Case
  Intellectual Property: Society and amicus partners will seek a decision from the Ohio Supreme Court.
  
  
  
  
• Charles River Drops Bid To Buy WuXi
  Contract Research: Drug discovery services firm responds to criticism from shareholders.
  
  
  
  
• Clean Your Plate, Save Energy
  Conservation: The U.S. wastes as much energy in tossed-out food as Sweden consumes in a year.
  
  
  
  
• Cap And Trade Dies In Senate
  Politics: Majority leader says too few votes exist for bill putting a price on carbon.
  
  
  
  
• Chemical Earnings Bounce Back
  Second Quarter: Companies make up ground lost during the recession.
  
  
  
  
• Chemical Security
  Senate panel affirms current rules for safeguarding chemical facilities.
  
  
  
  
• Plumes Finger Oil Spill
  Geochemistry: BP leak is behind undersea oil plumes, isotopic analyses confirm.
  
  
  
  
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
  Femtosecond Science: Technique tracks structure, electron dynamics during reactions.
  
  
  
  
• Iron And Sunlight Zap Methylmercury
  Environmental Pollutants: Scientists uncover a mechanism for methylmercury's decomposition during the Arctic's long summer days.
  
  
  
  
• To Track An Oxidant
  Indoor Air: Scientists measure hydroxyl radicals for the first time in an unperturbed indoor environment.
  
  
  
  
• Shaking Paves Way To Clean DNA
  Nucleic Acid Chemistry: Method purifies by catching desired product in a gel.
  
  
  
  
• Microbes To The Rescue?
  Oil Spill: The fate of spilled oil in the Gulf rests with the hydrocarbon-digesting microbes colonizing underwater plumes.
  
  
  
  
• Spolchemie, DIC Form Partnership
  Cooperation: Contract on alkyds deepens relationship between Japanese and Czech firms.
  
  
  
  
• U.S. Is Golden At International Chemistry Olympiad
  Student team earns two gold medals, a silver, and a bronze.
  
  
  
  
• Invista Considers Divesture
  Polymers: The company is investigating a sale of its polyethylene terephalate unit.
  
  
  
  
• Fullerenes Found In Space
  Astronomers detect C60 and C70 in dying star.
  
  
  
  
• Metalloproteins' Ranks Swell
  Metal-containing proteins more diverse than thought.
  
  
  
  
• Fresh Air For Avandia
  Drug Discovery: New diabetes drug insights may revive research efforts.
  
  
  
  
• Scientist Held For Trade Secret Theft
  Intellectual Property: The FBI arrests former Dow employee.
  
  
  
  
• Better Sampling Needed in Wastewater Monitoring
  Water Pollutants: Researchers worry improper sewage sample collection will miss fluctuating contaminant levels.
  
  
  
  
• Texas Tech Overhauls Lab Safety
  Investigation: Internal report grows from January accident.
  
  
  
  
• TSCA Reform Bill Introduced
  Congress: Legislation would require producers to provide data on their chemicals for EPA safety review.
  
  
  
  
• Dow Takes The Olympic Podium
  Branding: Company says Olympic sponsorship is good for its business and its image.
  
  
  
  
• Cool Roofs
  Government: Energy Secretary mounts new efficiency program for federal buildings.
  
  
  
  
• Display Demand Spurs Investment
  Electronic Materials: Japan's Fujifilm and Kuraray expand LCD film capacity.
  
  
  
  
• Graphite Oxide's Flammability Explained
  A common contaminant in graphite oxide renders the material highly flammable.
  
  
  
  
• Plug-In Hybrids Curb Smog
  Air Pollution: In Denver, swapping plug-in electric hybrids for gas-powered cars might help cut ozone-causing pollutants.
  
  
  
  
• Researchers Model Personal Pollution Exposure
  People's diet, not their local environment, best determines their pollutant loads, study concludes.
  
  
  
  
• South Korea's Honam Makes Malaysian Buy
  Purchase of Titan Chemicals is Korean firm's first big foreign move.
  
  
  
  
• Making Better Trash Decisions
  Waste Management: New tool to assess environmental impacts highlights the benefits of producing electricity through waste incineration.
  
  
  
  
• Sugar Derivative Solidifies Oil
  Materials Chemistry: Gelation process could turn spilled oil into skimmable fat for easy cleanup.
  
  
  
  
• Linking Temperature Rise To Effects
  Climate Change: Study estimates per-degree impact on precipitation, crop yields.
  
  
  
  
• Streams of Noxiousness
  Water Pollutants: Scientists develop new way to proactively monitor groundwater contaminants in city streams.
  
  
  
  
• Final Round Of ARPA-E Grants
  Research: Energy Department issues $92 million in frontier grants.
  
  
  
  
• Build Your Own Enzyme
  Biochemistry: Scientists create the first intermolecular Diels-Alderase.
  
  
  
  
• Catalysis By Graphene Oxide
  Graphene intermediate makes ketones and aldehydes from alcohols, alkynes, and olefins.
  
  
  
  
• Moving Forward On Algal Biofuels
  Alternative Energy: ExxonMobil, Synthetic Genomics facility will help optimize algal fuel production.
  
  
  
  
• Downsizing the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone
  Water Pollution: New model suggests larger cuts in nitrogen pollution needed to shrink the Gulf's dead zone.
  
  
  
  
• One Mona Lisa Mystery Solved
  Chemistry and Art: Da Vinci achieved his amazing shadowing by using many strokes of pigmented glaze.
  
  
  
  
• FDA Panel Votes In Favor Of Avandia
  Drug safety: Controversy over hidden risks of diabetes drug prompts calls for action by agency.
  
  
  
  
• Battery Demand On The Rise
  Alternative Fuels: Lithium batteries and battery materials get a big boost from electric cars.
  
  
  
  
• Another Force To Stabilize Proteins
  Structural Biology: Unappreciated interaction is widespread, research shows.
  
  
  
  
• Crude Structure
  Energy: Researchers observe liquid crystals in crude petroleum for the first time.
  
  
  
  
• Upping The Ante
  Mergers and Acquisitions: Air Products hopes better offer will entice Airgas shareholders.
  
  
  
  
• New Method Detects Particularly Toxic Arsenic Compound
  Water Pollution: Scientists measure chemical at levels one-million times greater than previously detected.
  
  
  
  
• Pharma Outsourcing
  Aptuit will buy GlaxoSmithKline's Italian R&D labs.
  
  
  
  
• Rising Cleantech
  Start-Ups: First half brought record funding for clean-technology firms.
  
  
  
  
• Sizing The Proton
  Fundamentals: Latest data reveal proton is smaller than believed.
  
  
  
  
• Restoring Neuron Formation
  Neuroscience: In rodents, aminopropylcarbazole also helps neurons survive.
  
  
  
  
• A Boron Cluster‑Go-Round
  Chemical Bonding: Fluxional behavior in B19- cluster suggests.