Friday, July 8, 2011

Chemistry in Today's World

Below are several articles from Sciencedaily.com about new break throughs in chemistry and science:

Red Light from Carbon Nanotubes

Extremely Rapid Water: Scientists Decipher a Protein-Bound Water Chain

Laser, Electric Fields Combined for New 'Lab-On-Chip' Technologies

These articles will be updated periodically with new interesting information about science.

Why Chemistry?

Students everywhere have wondered "Why Chemistry?". Why do I need to learn this information. Why am I learning about particles, atoms, and ions and what impact will this have on my life. The interesting part about chemistry is that every part of your life is impacted by it. From how soap is able to clean dishes and your clothes to how food melts, boils, and evaporates. Every single aspect of life can be looked at through the lense of chemistry and can be explained. So on this site, you will see some interesting reasons as to why you should study chemistry.

Here you will see why a group of students know that chemistry is important: