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AstronomyNew alcohol added to space-stuff catalog
Researchers have discovered the molecule vinyl alcohol in space.
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HumansNobel prizes mark 100th anniversary
This year the Nobel prizes are a century old.
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Couched in language peppered with mays, the article suggests that we are all being poisoned with PBDEs from sewage sludge applied to farmland. However, sludge with high concentrations of volatile organics isn’t qualified in most jurisdictions of which I am aware for land application. It’s usually sent to a landfill or incinerated. Couches and chair […]
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ChemistryBurned by Flame Retardants?
One particular class of flame retardants—polybrominated diphenyl ethers—is accumulating at alarming rates in the environment, taints human breast milk, and has toxic effects similar to the now-banned PCBs.