Specialty chemical and ingredient sales and marketing company American International Chemical has appointed Darren J. Birkelbach as president.
If you suspect that the superiority claims made for certain wines are simply nonsense, then this is the book for you.
The image of an orange glowing doughnut shape stirred a global sensation when it was revealed on 10 April 2019. The first visualisation of a black hole seen as a black shadow in the middle, is framed by the spiralling accretion disk of material being sucked into it. The strong deflection of light even from behind the black hole makes this radiation appear as a doughnut-shaped halo.
A component of cannabis could help ferry medications across the blood-brain barrier, researchers in Spain report.
The Bank of Italy has approved new investment criteria that single out companies that take action on climate change and exclude those that do not adopt UN principles on the environment, human rights, labour and anti-corruption.
The EU has come under fire from NGOs over its actions at the latest conference on the Stockholm Convention, which deals with persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Parasitic nematode worms infect almost all cultivated crops, inflicting roughly a 20% loss in annual yields. Now, scientists have discovered metabolites in soil bacteria that protect crops against nematodes.
LED lights are gaining market share, while chemists continue to develop new materials to tweak their performance in the search for the perfect white light.
Lab managers are looking to improve productivity and throughput, and new instrumentation on show at PittCon aims to solve the problem.
Research over the past two decades has uncovered a multitude of benefits of sleep. It aids learning and decision-making, strengthens the immune system, fine-tunes levels of insulin and glucose, regulates appetite, and maintains a healthy gut and heart.