Chemistry Newsbytes

Posted by Bethany Halford and Lisa Jarvis on July 18, 2008 in Chemistry is Everywhere

Piezoelectricity at work: A U.K. dance club installs a power-generating dance floor. Engadget

That second semester of organic could get a lot less crowded: A Harvard dean thinks pre-meds might not need all that chemistry. WSJ Health Blog

What to do with all that human waste generated in a six-month space mission? Astronauts are busy drinking their Tang to help NASA figure it out. Gizmodo

An Australian start-up thinks a single-layered coating of porous silicon oxide could vastly improve the efficiency of solar cells. CNet

Female chemists in the U.K. are dissuaded by “macho” environment of academia. Chemistry World

The Army is set to deploy new chemical-sniffing robots. Artificial Intelligence