Wilder 'Chemistry' from 1880

What was the first mention of "Chemistry" in the journal Science ? You might think, given that Science started in 1880, that an au...

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Friday Fun: Posters

Two regular readers have sent in chem-themed posters from different ends of the U.S.A. First, from Lockheed Martin, comes this educational r...

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Stock Photo Science - Colchicine

Our tiny company doesn't have a true marketing or business development staff, so publicity often falls to the scientists - y'know, d...

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Exactly Like Cooking - Review of "Yes, Chef"

It's been a while since I've read a book I couldn't put down. Especially one that blends two of my favorite subjects: cooking, a...

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Habemus Chemia!

When the white smoke puffed up the conclave chimney, all eyes turned to the Vatican. A little while later, Jorge Mario Bergoglio - now Pope...

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Friday Fun - Up, Up, Up The Mountain Ahead

Dream big, kids. When you join a new company, you instinctively adapt to the work pace, flow, and org chart. Some changes take longer than o...

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Cutting-Edge, Nobel-Worthy Chemistry

After all the early fuss about the merits of the 2012 Chemistry Nobel Prize, I noticed this challenge, couched in an earlier Chemjobber comm...

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2012 Chemistry Nobel - And the Winner Is...

Source: Forbes.com Congratulations to Profs. Lefkowitz and Kobilka, winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! (Admittedly, it's a bi...

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Molecular Chords - A Musical Periodic Table

"One day, my system will be used to categorize cupcakes, texts, and crooked politicians." Dmitri Mendeleev had a good thing going....

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Chemistry Words, with Friends

A recent discussion on Twitter brought some salient sci-comm discussion: Why aren't more chemical terms acceptable for play in the smar...

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