Chemistry

  1. Chemistry

    Long Live Plastics

    With plastics in museums decomposing, a new effort seeks to halt the demise of materials commonly thought to be unalterable.

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  2. Chemistry

    Trapping Compact Fluorescents’ Toxic Gas

    New nanomaterials may offer a solution to mopping up a toxic pollutant associated with fluorescent lighting.

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  3. Chemistry

    Oops! A Fluorescent Light Breaks

    Toxic mercury will be released whenever a fluorescent lamp breaks.

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  4. Chemistry

    Fluorescent bulbs offer mercury advantage

    Featured blog: Switching to light bulbs that contain mercury might, surprisingly, reduce overall mercury releases to the environment. Plus, what to do when you break your fluorescent bulb.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Moms: One Solution to Tainted Milk

    Tainted infant formulas point to a problem in the way society values moms.

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  6. Chemistry

    Obama’s brain trust

    Featured blog: Sixty-one Nobel laureates sign a letter explaining why they support Barack Obama's run for the presidency.

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  7. Chemistry

    A better fate for plastic bottles

    Using microbes to convert PET into a high-value plastic could encourage more recycling.

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  8. Chemistry

    Popular plastics chemical poses further threat

    The chemical bisphenol A may raise the risk of heart attacks and type 2 diabetes by suppressing a protective hormone.

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  9. Chemistry

    Turning CO2 into chalk and sand

    Removing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and storing it permanently is one of the possible solutions to global warming, but remains expensive to do. A new technique could make carbon sequestration economical on a large scale, while producing useful materials on the side.

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  10. Chemistry

    FBI reveals more details of anthrax investigation

    A panel of scientists involved in the anthrax investigations released new details.

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  11. Ecosystems

    Coastal dead zones expanding

    The number of coastal areas known as dead zones is on the rise. A new tally reports more than 400 of the oxygen starved regions worldwide.

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  12. Chemistry

    Fingerprints go high-tech

    A new chemical technique shows promise in identifying traces of explosives, illicit drugs and perhaps even signs of disease.

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