Chemistry

How 40 Percent Of People Function In The Morning Remains A Mystery

A new survey finds that how 40 percent of people function is a scientific mystery- because only 60 percent of people start their mornings with coffee. This is baffling in a country where $18 billion annually is spent just on specialty coffees. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 28 2015 - 7:32am

The Smell Of Death Could Become A Powerful Forensic Tool

Most people are able to recognize the smell of “death” when they encounter a dead animal on a farm or a roadkill. But despite its distinctive scent, few know why it actually smells the way it does. Even forensic scientists may not have identified all of t ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 28 2015 - 9:00am

Prenatal BPA Exposures (Don’t) Affect Birth Weight

Recent media stories have reported on two new scientific studies involving BPA’s effects on birth weight.  One study reported a statistical association between prenatal exposure to BPA and increased birth weight, while the other reported an association wi ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Oct 8 2015 - 10:03am

Waste Water Treatment Plants Fail To Completely Eliminate New Chemical Compounds

The fishing port of Ondarroa, the Deba marina, the estuary at Gernika (beside the discharge stream of the waste water treatment plant) and the industrial ports of Pasaia and Santurtzi are the scenarios where the research was carried out between May and Ju ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2015 - 1:58pm

Cleaning Up The Dirty Business Of Making New Clothes

Processing fabric for the latest fashions and other textile-based products today requires thousands of chemicals, some of which are toxic and cause 20 percent of the world's water pollution. To reduce its environmental footprint, the textile industry ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 1:08pm

Subscription Box Chemistry Set

You’ve probably had subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, or even Netflix. Fairly recently the subscription box has emerged like Loot Crate, filled with Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Comic book themed T-shirts, mugs, minifigures and such. Now there’s a subscription bo ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Oct 22 2015 - 9:05am

Some Toxins Remain In Your Clothes, Finds Study

In a new thesis, 60 garments from Swedish and international clothing chains have been tested and though around a hundred chemicals were preliminary identified, several of the substances were not on the producers' lists and are suspected to be by-prod ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2015 - 4:16pm

Methane Hydrates: Secrets Of Ice That Burns

Methane hydrates are a kind of ice that contains methane, and that form at certain depths under the sea or buried in permafrost. They can also form in pipelines that transport oil and gas, leading to clogging. Yet methane hydrates are nearly impossible to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2015 - 4:42pm

Oil-Based Pesticides Most Effective At Killing This

In what might be a new breakthrough for the spider-control field, researchers have found that oil-based pesticides are more effective than water-based pesticides at killing the contents of brown widow spider egg sacs. This finding is important because try ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2015 - 7:00am

Alkali-Aggregate Reaction And Why Even Concrete Ages

Researchers have set out to solve the mystery of a degenerative sign of aging in concrete: the alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR), where a material forms that takes up more space than the original concrete and thus gradually cracks the concrete from within a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2015 - 6:26am