Have you got the right chemistry? From Glasgow Evening Times It's hoped Scotland's first ever attendance at Informex, in New Orleans this week, will raise the prospect of new business for the chemical industry in Scotland. Caroline Strain, head of chemicals at Scottish Enterprise, said: "The chemical sector is a major employer in Scotland and a sector which has the potential to create even more impact in the Scottish economy.

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Panther mission: Re-create chemistry From South Bend Tribune Washington's defending Class 4-A state championship team has no instructions for a method to repeat. Washington, meanwhile, got its first taste of Conseco Fieldhouse two years ago in a championship loss to Castle. St. Joe did it, though came up a game shy in its last two tourney runs. "Lechlitner (St. Joe's point guard) was a leader as a junior (during the title run), so her role didn't change," Megyese said. Smallbone's numbers went from 13 points a game en route to the championship, to...

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Ocean hydrocarbons made from rocks From www.rsc.org/chemistryworld Researchers investigating 60-metre high carbonate chimneys in the Atlantic Ocean - the so-called 'Lost City' deep ocean vent field - have discovered that hydrocarbons seeping out from the vents don't come from a biological source such as bacteria, plants or animal matter. The mantle-derived rocks in the Lost City field have been active for over 30,000 years, and the researchers think many other similar formations could exist, undiscovered, in the deep Atlantic Ocean.

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Chemistry isn't there From Trinidad I called her a few days later, and I asked her to go out with me again. After a school dance I asked her why she never told me, and I also apologised for being so quiet lately. A: I'm sorry to say that there does have to be chemistry between two people for them to fall in love, and while her chemistry worked on you, yours didn't work on her. It's possible that she had feelings for someone else, who in turn didn't feel the same way about her- who knows?

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Seafloor Chemistry: Life's building blocks made inorganically From Science News Small amounts of hydrocarbons emitted from the Lost City hydrothermal vent field (map below shows location) were probably produced by inorganic chemical reactions. Unlike most hydrothermal vents, which crop up along midocean ridges where tectonic plates spread to form new seafloor, those of the Lost City lie about 15 km west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on ocean crust that's about 1.5 million years old. Lost City fluids also contain small quantities of hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane, and...

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