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In every sales situation, your No. 1 job is to sell yourself to the customer. Here's how

Sometimes, being a CEO is a lot like being a major-league coach. That means you need the right mix of playmakers in your locker room. Here's how I do it.

Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa who netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the finding.

In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue , we speak with Jim Rekoske, VP for renewable energy and chemicals for Honeywell--which licenses its biofuel technology to refineries.

When I started VIA in 1993, my mother sent me a card with the famous quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” I believed it then, but now I know it to be the truth

The effect of microwave heating and cell phone radiation on sample material is no different than a temperature increase, according to scientists from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, in Tempe, as published in a recent issue of EPJ B.

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The International Year of Chemistry commemorates the achievements that have made life better. Breakthroughs promise a greener and more productive future. [More]

Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. [More]

Nereus, a remotely operated vehicle, is set to travel to some of the deepest and coldest parts of the sea to find out exactly how our aquatic environments are changing--and how to fix it. Humans have stepped foot on the moon more times than we've been to the deepest floors of our oceans. As science looks to survey new species, prospect minerals, and monitor how climate change is altering the depths, engineers need to find new ways to get us there, or at least send our mechanical eyes and ears.

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface.

Mimicking the highly efficient power-generation process of photosynthesis, an artificial leaf could change how the world gets energy. And new developments at MIT mean it could happen in the next few years. Earlier this year, MIT professor Daniel Nocera made a discovery : By dipping a cobalt-and phosphate-coated artificial silicon leaf into a jar of water, he could effectively mimic photosynthesis and create power at an efficiency greater than today's solar panels

This year has been designated the International Year of Chemistry , so it is only fitting that two new members of the atomic family should be welcomed in during 2011. [More]

In the U.S. the Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer--and the beginning of barbeque season

LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.