Method for building complex molecules helps fight cancer, protect crops _ and wins Nobel Prize

Trio wins Nobel for developing key chemistry tool

China drives away promising candidates, faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize

China faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize

A list of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners

List of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners

Excerpts from the citation for the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Excerpts from 2010 Nobel chemistry prize citation

2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel for cross couplings

2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel

UK-based scientists win Nobel physics prize for ultrathin carbon 100 times stronger than steel

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

Hoppy, high-alcohol India Pale Ales reign supreme with American brewers and drinkers

In American craft brewing, IPAs reign supreme

Calif. lawmakers reject ban on plastic shopping bags, which critics say are major pollutant

Calif. rejects ban on plastic shopping bags

Paper or … ? California lawmakers to decide whether state should ban plastic shopping bags

Calif. bill seeks to ban plastic shopping bags

US defense secretary backs longtime associate as Obama’s pick to oversee national intelligence

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Radioactive material in scrapyard that killed 1 person traced to university lab in India

Radioactive material in scrapyard in India kills 1

Study: Carbon causing oceans’ chemistry to change faster than in thousands of years

New study says oceans’ chemistry changing rapidly

Carbon causing oceans chemistry to change faster than in millennia, study says

New study says ocean chemistry changing rapidly

State rejects NE Indiana county’s ban on phosphorous lawn fertilizers blamed for algae trouble

NE Ind. county’s lawn fertilizer ban rejected

Federal health agencies say more study needed on health effects of bisphenol-A

Health agencies call for more study on bisphenol-A

Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009 for chromosome research, economics and literature