Chemistry

Correlation Hype: Your Car Seats Are Not Giving You Cancer

A U.C. Riverside environmentalist is sounding the alarm about your commute.  Professor David Volz and colleagues hand-picked 90 commuter students who were given silicone wristbands to wear for five days. The goal was to find organophosphate esters on the w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 15 2020 - 9:30am

DDT Rebranded As Personalized Medicine For Insects

A new class of dopamine receptor antagonists (DARs) could provide a safer means of controlling mosquitoes that transmit key infectious diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and elephantiasis. The new chemicals work by manipulating the neurotransmitter dopa ...

Article - Science Ninja - Apr 1 2020 - 12:42pm

No More Chemophobia: Millions Cheer As Hydrogen Peroxide Machine Makes N95 Masks Reusable 20 Times

Environmental Working Group recently rolled out its annual Dirty Dozen list of foods that... wait, did they? This year, no one seems to know or care if a group of lawyers paid an intern to go through USDA pesticide data and did simple arithmetic to declare ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2020 - 12:31pm

Epidemiologists Link Celiac Disease To Frying Pans And Then We Wonder Why People Don't Believe In Masks

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, when disease epidemiologists want to be taken seriously by the public, they face an uphill battle. Blocking their progress are epidemiologists who casually link everything to diseases, often using food frequency questionnair ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 12 2020 - 11:53pm

1910 Version Of The Scream May Have A Science Solution To Its Moisture Problem

The Scream is not one work of art but several; two paintings, two pastels, several lithographic prints and a few drawings and sketches. Edvard Munch  was a practical artist so if the check cleared he would make another. His original Tempera on Cardboard is ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2020 - 4:13pm

Formaldehyde: The Carcinogen That Wasn’t

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Article - Frank Schnell - May 29 2020 - 1:12pm

Blatant Opportunism: EDC Believers Exploiting Covid-19 Pandemic Further Erodes Trust In Science And Health Efforts

As a semi-retired epidemiologist, in a higher risk age group and with attendant co-morbidities, I have followed the Covid-19 pandemic with scientific curiosity mixed with a tinge of personal anxiety.   Much of the data being reported is of abysmal quality ...

Article - Gregory Bond - Jun 30 2020 - 10:14am

Weekend Science: Are You Bitter? You're More Likely To Drink IPA Beers

After centuries of converging on balanced, smooth beers, the industry suddenly lurched sideways in the 21st century. While large brands now have to fear for their existence, men in beards are making a fortune selling pronounced, bitter craft brews. The bus ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 18 2020 - 11:16am

Native Honey Tastes Better? Okay, But Diabetes Health Claims Don't Add Up

In Australia, native people have long contended that  native stingless bee honey had special health properties. Like the well-known Apis mellifera honeybees, stingless bees live in permanent colonies made up of a single queen and workers, who collect polle ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2020 - 1:37pm

Molecular Diffusion And Chemical Reaction Are Unrelated? A New Challenge In Chemistry

Common chemical reactions accelerate Brownian diffusion by sending long-range ripples into the surrounding solvent, which would mean that molecular diffusion and chemical reaction are related. Yet that would violate a central dogma of chemistry; that molec ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2020 - 8:48am