Chemistry

Cheminformatics: NIH Funds A More Scientific Mosquito Repellent

Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US by a politician over the objections of scientists, it is still recommended by the United Nations for use where malaria has not been wiped out. Our FDA even wrote the book on how to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2025 - 7:23am

French Chicks Impacted Most: Activists Set Their Sights On Banning Tebuconazole

A French team conducted experiments using sparrow chicks and write in Environmental Research that their tests led to slower growth, with females impacted most.  They targeted the common fungicide tebuconazole, popular on food crops because it can stop ever ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2025 - 2:34pm

'Of Questionable Evidentiary Weight' — Another Nail In IARC's Glyphosate Coffin

It seems like a hundred years ago that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was considered a neutral force for public good- but it was only 51. In 1965, when the Agency was created by the United Nations, there was a lot of optimism about ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 1:28pm

Safe Water May Be Killing You

The drinking water treatment process is designed to remove harmful pathogens that are prevalent in nature, but a new study suggests that it may be harmful also. Scientists know that inert ingredients are not harmful you but the authors of the new paper inv ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 28 2025 - 10:19am

Practical Chemistry: What Makes Blue Jeans Blue?

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Article - Hank Campbell - May 1 2025 - 9:14am

DFDT: Nazi Cousin Of DDT Has Been 'Rediscovered' But Will People Want It?

Scientists have written a paper talking about how they "rediscovered" a pesticide that had never really been forgotten but had been ignored because it was created during the Nazi regime and really expensive; DFDT, a chemical relative of DDT. Germ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2025 - 9:52am

Instead Of Genetically Engineering Bedbugs, EPA Should Re-Evaluate DDT

In the 1950s, the global infestation of bed bugs was nearly eradicated, thanks to the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, popularly known as DDT. Due to outcry from environmentalists and concern about Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1), and ov ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 20 2025 - 4:22pm

Egyptian Blue, The World's Oldest Synthetic Pigment, Gets Recreated

Anti-science activists have been in a war on food coloring for decades, and with one of their own having power in the new presidential administration, have even banned some, but artificial dyes have been used in many products for millennia. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2025 - 8:55am

NEW: Infuzide Shows Promise Against Multidrug Resistant Pathogens

There is no balance of nature and never has been, the universe is always looking for new ways to kill and create, which is why pathogens evolve resistance to drugs over time. It is estimated that antimicrobial resistance causes over 1,000,000 deaths each y ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2025 - 9:26am

With New Acceptance Of Vaccines, The Left Needs To Rethink Pesticides Next

A few short years ago, the western left- America and Europe- had a holy trinity of things they opposed; medicine, food, and energy. There is no hope for energy, even 100% higher electricity rates in places like Germany and California won't get them to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2025 - 1:43pm