TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom:
… Read the rest “Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.”Pestalotiopsis microspora, found in the jungles of
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These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”
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:
… Read the rest “Air miner.”…[S]cience
New York Times recognizes the work of some teenage sleuths in finding what’s really in that fancy herbal tea:
… Read the rest “Tea’s secrets revealed – by kid detectives.”Catherine C. Gamble, a senior who will be attending Harvard this fall;
This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil leads and engagement rings, formed into a more geometrically… Read the rest “Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918”
Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining:
… Read the rest “Fracking stinkwater.”Injecting large quantities of water and other fluids to fracture deep rock formations
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 bedbugs:
… Read the rest “Grapefruit vs. bugs.”Marc Dolan of the
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 woman is nowhere to be found:
… Read the rest “Scent of tears.”But
Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness:
… Read the rest “Too clean, too sensitive.”The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making them more prone to
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover.… Read the rest “SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)”
Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel:
… Read the rest “Atomic cars.”Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a long-sought
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… even though it all started as a lab joke … Read the rest “Nobel-winning goof-offs.”
No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet:
… Read the rest “Dry water.”Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. In fact,
I went there. No, really, I went there. The BBC reports on the way chemists will use urine as fuel:
… Read the rest “Pee-pee power.”Dr Tao said: “Growing up in rural eastern China I was aware of the use of urea as an agricultural
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Discovery is reporting that the population of radioactive boars is increasing in Europe:
… Read the rest “Radioactive boars rising.”Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where they have attacked and frightened
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