Chemistry

Molten Wax, Cool Liquid Baths- Science Is A Lot Sexier Than Fifty Shades Of Grey

A new research project looked at how to create various non-spherical particles.  Non-spherical particles have a great deal of potential uses in industry because associated with their different shapes are properties such as large surface areas, high packing ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2015 - 11:49am

Synthetic Or Botanical? What's The Best Mosquito Repellant?

For exposed skin, there really isn’t an alternative to topical insect repellents. LoloStock Mosquitoes need blood to survive. And what better place to get a good meal than a slow, tasty human? ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 19 2015 - 9:00am

Emulsifiers Promote Obesity And Colitis In Mice

Emulsifiers, which are added to processed foods to aid texture and extend shelf life, can alter the gut microbiota composition and localization to induce intestinal inflammation in mice that promotes the development of inflammatory bowel disease and metabo ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2015 - 1:51pm

Why Seashells' Mineral Forms Differently In Seawater

For almost a century, scientists have been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth's oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of calcite, and at other times form ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 9:30am

Green Products Are No Less Toxic

Though people selling alternatives to science will use labels like "chemical-free", that is not really the case. Our world is entirely chemical. 'Chemical' has simply been turned into a bad word in 'if I cannot pronounce it, it mus ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 11:32am

GMO Soybean Oil Is Healthier Than Organic Or Conventional

Soybean oil accounts for more than 90 percent of all the seed oil production in the United States and genetically modified (GM) soybean oil, obviously made from seeds of GM soybean plants, was recently introduced into the food supply with the benefit that ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 4:08pm

Obesity Rates Can Be Determined By Analyzing Sewage

By Brian Owens, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- Sampling the waste in a city's sewage system can be a good way to study the microbes that live in the population's guts – and could even offer a way to monitor public health issues such as obesit ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 9 2015 - 9:00am

LECs- Competitor To LEDs Could Soon Have A Better Lifespan

Lighting technology is in a state of change. Incandescent bulbs, which have been around forever, have been banned in the United States but the heavily-subsidized replacement, compact fluorescent bulbs, run the risk of mercury poisoning if they break and ha ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2015 - 10:10am

PolySTAT: Injectable Plastic Finds Wound And Stops You From Bleeding Out

A new injectable polymer  called PolySTAT strengthens blood clots and that means that  soldiers who might otherwise die from uncontrolled bleeding before reaching a surgical hospital could be saved. Likewise for civilian traumas. A tourniquet won't st ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 2:29pm

Celiac Disease And Allergies: Cooking Pasta May Change Proteins In Wheat

Researchers trying to understand why some people have more severe wheat-related health problems than others, and with different products, have found new clues in how the grain's proteins, including gluten, change when cooked and digested.  Gianfranco ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2015 - 11:22am