1999 Articles by date | Articles by topic
12/27/99 - Conjugated Linoleic
Acid
Beef fat components that promise health.
12/20/99 - Dark Matter
Is most of the universe familiar or unfamiliar?
12/13/99 - Eumelanin and
Pheomelanin
Black and red pigments in hair and skin.
12/06/99 - Radon's Progeny
It's radon's daughters that cause problems.
11/29/99 - Atomic Clocks
Off by less than a second in a million years.
11/22/99 - Terminator Technology
Biotechnology's version of copy protection.
11/15/99 - Erucic Acid and Erucamide
In Lorenzo's Oil and plastic bread wrappers.
11/08/99 - Capping the Washington Monument
In 1884, pure aluminum was a novelty.
11/01/99 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1999
Femtosecond visualizations of reactions.
10/25/99 - Resveratrol: A Stilbene
in Red Wine
A remedy for cardiac disease and cancer?
10/18/99 - Polar Bear Hair Is Not a
Fiber Optic
Proteins absorb light, stopping transmission.
10/11/99 - Gases from Volcanoes
Exhalations of subterranean origin.
10/04/99 - Belousov-Zhabotinsky
Reaction
Laboratory demonstration that oscillates.
09/27/99 - Cellulase Treatment of
Textiles
Nowadays, enzymes "stonewash" jeans.
09/20/99 - Thujone
The destructive demon in absinthe?
09/13/99 - Cadaverine and Putrescine
Odoriferous aftermath of protein decay.
09/06/99 - Stainless Steel
Passivation
Generating a thin barrier against corrosion.
08/30/99 - Nepetalactone
Catnip's active ingredient.
08/23/99 - Using Viruses as Test
Tubes
Perform reactions inside an empty virus.
08/16/99 - Swainsonine
Locoweed toxin affects lysosomes and Golgi.
08/09/99 - Hypergolic Propellants
These rocket fuels ignite on contact.
08/02/99 - E-biomed
Portal to free online research papers.
07/26/99 - Abbreviations from the
Past
Some elements invoke their original names.
07/19/99 - Pure Fusion Reactions
New weapons from hydrogen isotope fusion?
07/12/99 - Elements 116 and 118
Two new superheavy elements discovered.
07/05/99 - Denatonium Benzoate
Bitter additive prevents poisonings.
06/28/99 - Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
Enzymology of antifreeze ingestion.
06/21/99 - Coprine
Alcohol sensitivity from mushroom molecule.
06/14/99 - Tallying a Mercury Spill
This toxic metal does, and will, evaporate.
06/07/99 - Atmosphere of Mars
Thin, cold, dry, and dusty.
05/31/99 - Making Permanent Waves
Hair curling and straightening reactions.
05/24/99 - Chlorogenic Acid
Naturally occurring antioxidant in coffee.
05/17/99 - Watered Down Hairspray
New pollution laws impact old formulations.
05/10/99 - Defensive Secretion of
Skunks
Nature's bevy of baneful bouquets.
05/03/99 - Defining the Meter, the
Second, etc.
Ongoing changes in units of measurement.
04/26/99 - Microwave Ovens Churn
Water
Moving water molecules yield hot suppers.
04/19/99 - Oxygenated Gasoline
How it works, and what's in it.
04/12/99 - Exposing Nuclear Test Ban
Violators
Analyzing large volumes of atmosphere.
04/05/99 - Trichothecenes
Warfare agents: yellow rain, vomitoxin.
03/29/99 - Mad Hatters and
Garimpeiros
Exposure to mercury, then and now.
03/22/99 - Flue Gas Desulfurization
Generating building material, not acid rain.
03/15/99 - Genistein and Daidzein
Breast and prostate cancer drugs from soy.
03/08/99 - Rotaxanes
Moveable ring surrounds molecular thread.
03/01/99 - Lab on a Chip
Miniaturization reaches benchtop chemistry.
02/22/99 - A First Look at Element
114
Preliminary data hint at heavy atom.
02/15/99 - Urushiols
Root cause of poison ivy and oak dermatitis.
02/08/99 - HMX and RDX
A-bomb and plastic explosive ingredients.
02/01/99 - Semiochemistry
Molecular signaling of friends and foes.
01/25/99 - Cubane
The world's only cubic hydrocarbon.
01/18/99 - Reptation
Slithering motion of polymers such as DNA.
01/11/99 - Plicatic Acid
Asthma-inducing irritant in cedar wood.
01/04/99 - Snowflake Crystals
Where meteorology meets chemistry.
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