Chemistry

Mitochondria- The Chemists' Organelle

I am writing a book on mitochondria and after a few months of research you begin to see a common thread- serendipity.  Sometimes big things happen because of what seems to be luck, a group of people all happen to be in one place at one time, they are all s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 6 2015 - 11:00pm

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

1840s Shipwreck Leads To Important Beer Science Discovery

The Paleo diet is all made up, organic food just accepts one kind of genetic modification in its modern food over another, but booze? Yeah, scientists can really show how that was different in the past. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:39pm

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

Hydrazine Speculation Can End: It's Not In Snus, Snuff Or Chewing Tobacco

Hydrazine was reported once in a limited sample of cigarette tobacco and tobacco smoke over 40 years ago[1] but ever since then it has been assumed as fact that hydrazine must be present in smokeless tobacco products as well, without anyone actually examin ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2015 - 8:30am