Chemistry

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

Stevia- Now Less Bitter For Drinkers

There is some good news for consumers with a sweet tooth. Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia's bitter aftertaste by physical- rather than chemical- means. Cornell professor of food process engineering, Syed Rizvi, co-authored t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2015 - 9:00am

A New Era Of Boutique Chocolate

A team of Belgian researchers has shown that the yeasts used to ferment cocoa during chocolate production can modify the aroma of the resulting chocolate. "This makes it possible to create a whole range of boutique chocolates to match everyone's ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2015 - 5:00pm

Plants That Defend Themselves Using Chemistry Could Replace Pesticides

Chemical triggers that make plants defend themselves against insects could replace pesticides, according to a new paper in Bioorganic&Medicinal Chemistry Letters which identifies five chemicals that trigger rice plants to fend off a common pest- the w ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2015 - 12:48pm

Arsenic In Groundwater Mystery Solved

Groundwater in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Vietnam and China commonly contains concentrations of arsenic 20 to 100 times greater than the World Health Organization's recommended limit, resulting in more than 100 million people being poisone ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2015 - 9:14am

An Injection-Free Future For Diabetic Patients- Seaweed Capsules

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death. Patients with type 1 diabetes have their insulin secreting cells destroyed by the immune system and require daily insulin injections. Pancreatic islet transplantation is an effective treatment that can dramat ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2016 - 3:30pm

Malaria Treatment Fails Due To Drug-Resistant Parasites

It may be time to embrace DDT again. New findings from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) confirm dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, the first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection in Cambodia, has failed i ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2016 - 12:04am

Native Grass Make Super-Thin Condoms

Fibres from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength. Working in partnership with Aboriginal traditional owners of the Camooweal region in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2016 - 7:01am

Beyond Diamonds And Gems: The World's Rarest Minerals

Scientists have inventoried and categorized all of Earth's rare mineral species described to date, each sampled from five or fewer sites around the globe. Individually, several of the species have a known supply worldwide smaller than a sugar cube. T ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2016 - 8:30am