Chemistry
- Beyond Diamonds And Gems: The World's Rarest Minerals
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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
- Nutritionists Claim Reviews Show A Difference Between Organic And Conventional Food
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Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2016 - 7:30am
- Not Scared Of MSG: Salt And Sodium Intake Remains High In China
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Though wealthy elites and fad-chasing food activists have promoted the idea that salt is a killer, the science doesn't show that. Instead, links are correlational. Asia has always been held up as a standard for health but as their incidence of hypert ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2016 - 12:48pm
- Low-Dose Exposure To Pesticides Like DDT Can Be Harmful To Brains, Says Study
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Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are a group of environmental contaminants that were banned in industrialized countries decades ago, but sut since they accumulate through the food chain and remain for a very long time in the human body, especially adipose ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2016 - 2:15pm
- Recreational Drugs: Bath Salts Still Easy To Get, But Difficult To Detect In Biological Samples
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Synthetic cathinones which produce effects similar to amphetamines and have been associated with numerous fatalities are derived from cathinone, which is present in the khat plant. Only supplement makers and buyers think if it happens in nature it must be ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2016 - 11:04am
- 10,000 New Reasons Not To Worry About Pesticide Residues
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Each year, the farmers around the world who produce our food (fruits, vegetables, grains) get the equivalent of a “grade” on a giant “group project.” For 2014 they got another A+ as they have for many years. The “test” entails thousands of food samples ...
Article - Steve Savage - Mar 2 2016 - 4:35pm
- 57 Different Pesticides Detected In Dead Polish Honeybees- And That's A Good Thing
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Dead European honeybees have almost 57 different pesticides detected, according to a new paper in the Journal of Chromatography A. Should that be a concern? Not really. The great thing about modern technology is that we can detect parts per trillion, orde ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2016 - 11:41am
- Formaldehyde: Fact & Fiction
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This was a poster I did for the 2012 Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in San Francisco. ...
Article - Frank Schnell - Mar 11 2016 - 1:41pm
- How The Rosy Periwinkle Creates Anti-Cancer Compounds
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The rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is a plant that produces organic compounds used to treat cancer, arrhythmia, and other medical conditions and now the details of the metabolism process for these compounds on a cellular level has been reveaked. Th ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2016 - 10:00am
- European Endocrine Disruptor Study Is Lightweight Of Evidence
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So, if you take literally what Patricia Hunt, Ph.D. and colleagues reported in the new issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, you could only conclude that two chemically unrelated, so-called endocrine disruptors alone were costin ...
Article - Josh Bloom - Mar 25 2016 - 8:20am