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