50 millionth unique chemical substance recorded in CAS Registry

October 13th, 2009 Iraq vets at treatment plant asked to get examWASHINGTON — Six years after nearly 1,200 U.S. soldiers in Iraq were potentially exposed to a sometimes deadly chemical linked to cancer, the military and Veterans Affairs Department have been tracking them down and asking them to get a medical exam.

September 30th, 2009 House passes registry for convicted arsonistsWASHINGTON — The House has passed a bill sought by California lawmakers that would create a national registry of convicted arsonists. The House passed a similar bill two years ago, but the effort stalled in the Senate.

September 18th, 2009 Lawmakers push for arson registryWASHINGTON — The deadly fire at Angeles National Forest is renewing a push from California lawmakers for a national registry of convicted arsonists. Democratic Sens.

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A novel analgesic is the 50 millionth chemical substance to be recorded with Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's most comprehensive compendium of such information. Significantly, CAS had registered the 40 millionth substance just nine months ago - as compared to 33 years it took to register the 10 millionth compound in 1990, according to a release of the American Chemical Society.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - A naturally present chemical in men's sweat may act as a primitive love potion that increases their attractiveness in women's eyes, says a new study. The substance is derived from the male sex hormone testosterone.

August 21st, 2009 Wash. woman added chemical cleaner to maltsBELLINGHAM, Wash. — A woman who put a chemical cleaner in two malts that injured several customers has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault.

August 12th, 2009 Army Corps finds World War I chemical, halts digWASHINGTON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halting its search for World War I-era chemical weapons in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood after workers found an open glass flask containing traces of the chemical agent mustard.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Fingerprints as a marker of your unique identity could soon be obsolete, for scientists have now found that people have another defining trait that may distinguish them from the rest of the human population-a metabolic fingerprint. In the study, the researchers have reported evidence of the existence of unique patterns in metabolism in humans.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, a group of international scientists took the help of a lunar eclipse to take a snapshot of earth's chemical fingerprint, which could help to identify planets most similar to earth where life may be thriving. The team used some of the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) to observe light reflected from the moon toward the earth during a lunar eclipse on August 16, 2008.

June 8th, 2009 Court refuses to hear suit over Camp Lejeune waterWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a Marine's lawsuit blaming the government's dumping of toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for his son's illnesses. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Donal McLean Snyder Jr.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - People whose teeth have decayed due to excess sugar could now make them whole again, thanks to a new, non-toxic dental filling derived from bile. Currently used dental fillings contain either mercury or a chemical called bisphenol A, substances that help the fillings harden but are potentially toxic to humans and the environment.

May 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new technique tracks movement of freely moving single neutral atoms in real time, that is more than 99.7 percent accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less than a millionth of a second. The system, developed by researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) in College Park and the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile, employs a novel means of altering the polarisation of laser light trapped between two highly-reflective mirrors, according to a JQI release.

May 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A large collaboration between various universities in the US has come up with a surprising twist to photosynthesis by swapping a key metal necessary for turning sunlight into chemical energy. In the heart of every green leaf are pigments called chlorophyll, which not only give most plants their color, but also along with the yellow and orange carotenoid pigments, are key molecules that harvest light across the spectrum.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Delinquent teens marry earlier than their peers while substance-abusing teens, especially girls who abuse marijuana, marry later than their peers, if at all, according to a broad-based study. Delinquency was defined as anti-social behaviour, including frequency of running away, arrests, physical fights and behavioural problems in school.

April 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists in Singapore has developed the first tri-continuous mesoporous material using a unique surfactant template, which was earlier predicted only mathematically. This completely new porous structure has been developed by Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN).