National Meeting News Releases
Dates: March 22-26, 2015
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Theme: Chemistry of Natural Resources
ACS' 249th National Meeting & Exposition will feature thousands of presentations on new discoveries in science. The topics include food and nutrition, medicine, health, energy, the environment and other fields where chemistry plays a central role. Some connect with the meeting’s theme, “Chemistry of Natural Resources,” which showcases the wide variety of technologies that positively affect the environment on planet Earth.
The American Chemical Society is the world’s largest scientific society with more than 158,000 members.
March 22
- ACS recognizes the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- Vitamin D may keep low-grade prostate cancer from becoming aggressive
- Turning packing peanuts into energy-storing battery components (video)
- A molecule from plants and trees could make our roads and roofs ‘greener’
- Opossum-based antidote to poisonous snake bites could save thousands of lives
- Chlorine use in sewage treatment could promote antibiotic resistance
- Special microbes make anti-obesity molecule in the gut
- Air pollutants could boost potency of common airborne allergens
March 23
- Kavli Lecture: Mining the secrets of carbohydrates for new leads on antibiotics (video)
- Kavli Lecture: Mimicking nature's chemistry to solve global environmental problems
- Popular artificial sweetener could lead to new treatments for aggressive cancers
- Squid-inspired 'invisibility stickers' could help soldiers evade detection in the dark
- New low-calorie rice could help cut rising obesity rates
- Legalizing marijuana and the new science of weed (video)
- New lead against HIV could finally hobble the virus's edge
- Sewage — yes, poop — could be a source of valuable metals and critical elements
March 24
- Inaugural issue of ACS Central Science released
- More flavorful, healthful chocolate could be on its way
- Fat turns from diabetes foe to potential treatment
- Looking to space to quantify natural gas leaks on Earth
March 25
- Food additive could serve as a safer, more environmentally friendly antifreeze
- Algae from clogged waterways could serve as biofuels and fertilizer
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