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ACS Meeting Denver: Timothy Long on Exciting New Polymers
Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

A Planet Made of Diamond
Discovery of a new binary system that includes a planet made of diamond

The Future of Chemical Education
Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

ACS Meeting Denver: L. Nafie on his New Book
Laurence A. Nafie, Syracuse University, USA, talks about his book "Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications"

Positively Coating Nanoparticles
Positively charged nanoparticles generated for the first time by versatile and general method that wraps them in amphiphilic polymers

Antarctic: First Map on Ice-Flow
A new map of Antarctica illustrates for the first time how ice moves across the continent

Secrets of Ebola Virus Resistance Uncovered
Critical cellular protein that the Ebola virus needs to cause infection and disease identified; it is a promising antiviral target

Hydrocarbon Encapsulation and Separation
Pumpkin-shaped molecular container displays high affinity and selectivity for small hydrocarbons with applications in gas separation

Wolfram Koch on the GDCh’s Top Event
Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany