Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains: The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
chemistry
What’s made from blue cheese and cleans itself?
If Inhabitat.com’s on the money with this one, the answer could soon be “just about anything,” thanks to Swiss scientists who’ve used blue cheese fungus […]
Toxic oil is toxic.
PhysOrg has bad news for the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spills are even more toxic than we thought: The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis […]
Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.
TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom: Pestalotiopsis […]
Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.
Image from Wikimedia Commons. These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical […]
Air miner.
Lando. Lando Calrissian. Cloud miner. Sounds like a great space opera profession, doesn’t it? But National Geographic is talking about exploiting the atmosphere for fuel: […]
Tea’s secrets revealed – by kid detectives.
New York Times recognizes the work of some teenage sleuths in finding what’s really in that fancy herbal tea: Catherine C. Gamble, a senior who […]
Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918
Click to embiggen and animate This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil […]
Fracking stinkwater.
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining: Injecting large quantities of water and other […]
Grapefruit vs. bugs.
NPR’s reporting sounds almost too good to be true as it extols the virtues of an all-natural, edible grapefruit extract that repels mosquitoes, ticks and […]
Scent of tears.
It’s a real turn-off, according to PhysOrg.com. They found that a chemical in women’s tears kills the mood for men – even if the crying […]
Too clean, too sensitive.
Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness: The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making […]
SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no […]
Atomic cars.
Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel: Scientists from the Los Alamos […]
Nobel-winning goof-offs.
In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… […]