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Just because chemical equipment can measure parts per trillion doesn’t necessarily mean that they have any biological significance. If you took one pill of Tylenol and dissolved in an olympic-size swimming pool, that would roughly be 1 part per billion. One part per trillion would be one pill in 1,000 swimming pools. My point is […]
By Science News -
EarthExcreted Drugs: Something Looks Fishy
Drugs that the body can't fully use enter waste water, where they may affect aquatic life—or wind up in tap water.
By Janet Raloff -
HumansFrom the June 14, 1930, issue
1,500,000,000 YEARS OF LIFE PORTRAYED IN GREAT HALL OF PAINTINGS Fifteen hundred million years of life on this planet will be unrolled as a single connected epic in a series of three majestic new halls planned for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.