Chemistry

How To Make A Meaningless Study Sound Scary, By The Staff At CNN

It was Monday’s “big” health story, or so we were told. According to CNN, there’s now an established link between the development of childhood cancers, primarily leukemia and lymphoma, and the use of pesticides. Sounds scary, maybe even real. But does the ...

Article - American Council ... - Sep 17 2015 - 8:00am

Great Barrier Reef: High-tech Fertilizers And Other Science To The Rescue

The latest report card on Great Barrier Reef water quality shows signs of improvement, but the health of the marine environment close to the shore remains poor, driven by pollution runoff from the land. Among the good news is that pollution levels in reef ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2015 - 1:30pm

Cut Sodium Intake By Replacing Salt With Spices

A recent paper suggests cooking with spices and herbs could close the 1,000 mg gap between the amount of sodium Americans actually consume on a daily basis and the amount recommended by the government Dietary Guidelines for Americans committee.   In the s ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2015 - 7:35am

Lower Sperm Motility In Men Exposed To DEHP

Men with higher exposure to diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), one of the phthalates, which is an umbrella term for a group of substances based on phthalic acid, have lower sperm motility and may therefore experience more difficulties conceiving children, acco ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2015 - 7:31am

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