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Summer 2009, Vol. 27, No. 2

Sustainability Made Easy?

By Matthew N. Eisler


The discrepancy between political goals and policy does not signify an absence of R&D but rather the need to approach R&D from a new perspective. The historical focus of the U.S. government on nuclear power as a potential large-scale energy source and the struggle to reconcile the internal combustion engine with fuel efficiency standards plead this point. Read more >>

Aspirin

Aspirin has a long history as a pain reliever— 2,000 years of history, in fact. Used in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Greece, in 1895 it became the commercial juggernaut we know today. However, it still took the better half of a century to gain a working understanding of how aspirin affects the body.
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Artificial Clouds and Inflammable Air

The first balloons were hot-air and hydrogen powered. They developed alongside and in competition with each other. Both drew spectacular crowds to their launch sites in and near Paris—spectacles that were recorded in popular prints. Competition between hot air and hydrogen proved fruitful, but their synthesis was fatal. Read more >>

Milestones

The Integrated Circuit at Fifty
50 years after its invention, this basic building block of digital electronics continues to shape societies around the globe.
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History in the Making

Community Adjourned
Community advisory panels are central to the U.S. chemical industry’s public outreach efforts; they are also frequently criticized as public-relations vehicles for the industry. Read more >>

Icons of Science

Chemistry’s Outer Limits
The Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius is widely remembered as one of the founders of modern physical chemistry. Read more >>

Explore

Hands-On Science
A group of Philadelphia middle school students learn how to make biodiesel in the classroom.
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