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Green Chemistry Event a Great Success at Pittsburgh's First Night Celebration

Carnegie Mellon’s top green chemistry scientists put on an interactive New Year’s event at the First Night Celebration in downtown Pittsburgh. Over...

NSF Funding Awarded to CMU Scientist

When most people think of a chemistry lab, they imagine beakers of smoky green liquid, Bunsen burners, and the occasional explosion. Mark Bier’s lab...

How Things Work: Aerogel

Welcome to a whole new year of How Things Work! Being mindful of your break-induced lack of mental acuity, I’ve decided to write about something simple:...

Scitech Briefs

3..2..1..Blast off to Pluto! On Thursday, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft blasted off into space on a 10-year, three-billion-mile mission to Pluto....