BBC reveals a dirty secret about our sooty cities – the grunge doesn’t trap air pollution – it creates it:
… Read the rest “City grime “breathes out” pollution”In rooftop experiments in Germany, the researchers tracked
Nature greets a new one-atom-thick material – a super-thin sheet of tin scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are calling “stanene”:
… Read the rest “Graphene’s tin cousin”Stanene (from the Latin
Not sure how it smells once you rub it on (despite assurances it doesn’t), but New Scientist is looking toward a blend of fish extract and shrimp shells to protect our skin and more against… Read the rest “Fish juice and shrimp shell sunscreen.”
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer:
… Read the rest “So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!”The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced
Popular Mechanics takes the 3D printer to the next level – synthesizing not new shapes, but new chemicals from scratch:
… Read the rest “3D printing molecules to order.”In a new study published in the journal Science today, [University
Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen:
… Read the rest “Programmable solids. Any shape you like.”The moving images we see on a display are created by controlling the net orientation of the molecules,
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth:
… Read the rest “Stronger than spider silk”In a study set to come out this month
It just ain’t sanitary. Science magazine plumbs the depths of the million-dollar treasure hiding at the municipal waste treatment plant:
… Read the rest “There’s gold in them thar sewers….”Metals have long been known to concentrate
Science Daily reveals that two kinds of phthalates – chemicals found in ordinary stuff like dryer sheets, soap, lipstick and vinyl fabrics – can drop IQ points off developing… Read the rest “Dumb chemicals drop babies’ IQs.”
Nature surveys the plastic in the seas, expects to see things like detergent bottles and Barbies breaking up into tiny “microplastic” particles, and doesn’t. So the… Read the rest “Once in the ocean, where does the plastic *go*?”
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene:
… Read the rest “Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.”Protons’ ability to travel through graphene
Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. There was no such thing as the English language, and most human beings had never even seen paper. 2,500 years before *that* is when we thought the first Egyptian… Read the rest “Mummies: WAAAY older than we thought.”
Science 2.0 has more on the discovery of lots of phthalates in fine European wines:
… Read the rest “Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.”It isn’t just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it’s the packaging. Phthalate
Science Daily pokes a hole in the optimism around electronic cigarettes with findings that they’re really not that different from the kind you light and burn:
… Read the rest “E-cigarettes not really that much better than the non-e variety.”The devices, which
The Guardian (with a little help from Harvard) confirms what folks have suspected for a while – that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is largely due to neonicotinoid pesticides:
… Read the rest “It really is the nicotine-based pesticide that’s killing all the bees.”In
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