The nation’s commercial airlines deserve a little credit for consistently carrying out their jobs. Rain or shine, their 35,000 daily flights ferry people of all kinds — the college graduate, the business executive, the vacationer — throughout the country and around the world.
...It’s uncommon for research to emerge that instantly connects to everyday people while also challenging conventional wisdom. A new study in ACS’ bi-weekly ...
Few classes of disease over the course of history can match the uncanny persistence and destruction of bacterial infections.
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The American Chemical Society’s 239th National Meeting begins Sunday in 
Here are a few important links to help navigate this scientific extravaganza:
Tune in to press conferences on ACS’ UStream site, which will feature 20 briefings from Sunday through Wednesday.
A schedule of these press conferences will be available Sunday morning at http://www.eurekalert.org/acsmeet.php. The Eurekalert! site will also provide access to National Meeting press releases
Overall, the 239th National Meeting topics span the horizons of modern science that involve chemistry, from astronomy to zoology, and include medicine, food and nutrition, energy and other fields where chemistry plays a central role. The meeting theme sessions - Chemistry for a Sustainable World - include almost 1,600 presentations.
Everyone is familiar with sickness and disease. We all know what it feels like - maybe a runny nose, maybe aching joints or unexplained exhaustion, maybe a host of additional symptoms. Now scientists are reporting development of a better way to understand the differences between healthy cells and diseased cells. 
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I haven't owned a car for more than two years.
That's a situation I'm now trying to remedy. I'm interested in minimizing my carbon footprint and am leaning toward purchasing a hybrid.
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