Researchers from the Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, teamed up with Boise State University Professor Peter Mullner to create a foam from a nickel-manganese-gallium alloy (Ni-Mn-Ga). This special foam changes shape when exposed to a magnetic ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois have recently discovered a new way to produce water from unlikely materials such as alcohols. Their discovery may lead to the creation of better catalysts (used to accelerate the rate of a chemical or ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Gerhard Ertl, a researcher at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin. Ertl will receive the prize for his studies of chemical processes ...

Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a novel material which is hard enough to scratch a diamond yet fairly cheap and simple to manufacture. The rhenium diboride compound developed by the UCLA scientists may have ...

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – is being awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Roger D. Kornberg from Stanford University for his: “studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”. Roger Kornberg has been selected for ...