Chemistry between college and elementary school From Clarksville Leaf Chronicle Sanders said the county-wide science fair is scheduled March 4-5 at Austin Peay with individual schools hosting their science fairs in late February. Sullivan said the Austin Peay students presenting experiments for the family nights are members of Chi Epsilon Mu and make several presentations at local schools prior to the county-wide science fair.

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New Line's got 'Chemistry' From Variety New Line Cinema has optioned the film rights to Anthony Capella's unpublished novel "Chemistry for Beginners," a romantic comedy about a sex researcher who falls for one of his subjects. New Line snapped up "Chemistry for Beginners" even before Capella's reps had started negotiating a publishing deal.

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Protecting ocean chemistry From oceanacidification.wordpress.com If atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are allowed to reach 500 parts per million (ppm) then nearly the entire ocean will be out of compliance with the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) quality criteria by the middle of this century, according to an international team of scientists. Most climate scientists say that if efforts are not made to limit carbon dioxide emissions now, the atmospheric concentration of this greenhouse gas will increase to 760 ppm by the end of the century,...

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AIDS-related Paradox From thehalfdecentpharmaceuticalchemistryblog.chemblogs.org What's probably the worst, social consequence of AIDS has always looked like a bitter irony to me; That's the same reason why no one dies of AIDS or HIV-infection, strictly speaking: they are killed by an increasing number of different diseases which can easily spread in an organism that is shunting down all his defences. That's why fluconazole becomes as familiar as AZT to people suffering from AIDS, being used even for prophylaxis against candidiasis. The reason why it's so common is still...

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Structural snapshot shows monster protein From www.rsc.org/chemistryworld A structural snapshot of a protein capsule has revealed details of the largest cellular component ever imaged by x-ray crystallography. The team, led by David Eisenberg and Leonard Rome of the University of California, Los Angeles, used a combination of cryo-electron microscopy and protein crystallography to build up a picture of the particle. The next step, says Rome, will be to get better data: 'We would like to get to higher resolution to place side chains in the model and see the...

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