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Latest American Chemical Society podcast: Sewage plant waste water as a huge new energy source

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WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011 — The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) award-winning podcast series, “Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions,” focuses on the discovery that household sewage has far more potential as an alternative…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Researcher lists more than 4,000 components of blood chemistry

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After three years of exhaustive analysis led by a University of Alberta researcher, the list of known compounds in human blood has exploded from just a handful to more than 4,000.
“Right now a medical doctor analyzing the blood of an ailing patie…

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Producing clean water in an emergency

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Disasters such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes often result in the spread of diseases like gastroenteritis, giardiasis and even cholera because of an immediate shortage of clean drinking water. Now, chemistry researchers at McGill Universi…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

Antifungal compound found on tropical seaweed has promising antimalarial properties

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A group of chemical compounds used by a species of tropical seaweed to ward off fungus attacks may have promising antimalarial properties for humans. The compounds are part of a unique chemical signaling system that seaweeds use to battle enemies …

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Green chemistry offers route towards zero-waste production

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Novel green chemical technologies will play a key role helping society move towards the elimination of waste while offering a wider range of products from biorefineries, according to a University of York scientist.
Professor James Clark, Director o…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist’s 60-year career

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years?
By discovering a new energy source, of course.
This week, SiGNa Chemistry Inc. unveiled its new hydrogen cartridges, which provide energy to fuel cel…

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Sleeping Trojan horse to aid imaging of diseased cells

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A unique strategy developed by researchers at Cardiff University is opening up new possibilities for improving medical imaging.
Medical imaging often requires getting unnatural materials such as metal ions into cells, a process which is a major ch…

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Greener process for key ingredient for everything from paint to diapers

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Scientists are reporting discovery of an environmentally friendly way to make a key industrial material — used in products ranging from paints to diapers — from a renewable raw material without touching the traditional pricey and increasingly …

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Fluorescent peptides help nerves glow in surgery

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Accidental damage to thin or buried nerves during surgery can have severe consequences, from chronic pain to permanent paralysis. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may have found a remedy: injectable fluoresc…

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Vegans’ elevated heart risk requires omega-3s and B12

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People who follow a vegan lifestyle — strict vegetarians who try to eat no meat or animal products of any kind — may increase their risk of developing blood clots and atherosclerosis or “hardening of the arteries,” which are conditions that ca…

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Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change

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For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Periodic table of the chemical elements posted on walls of chemistry classrooms and on the inside covers of chemistry textbooks worldwide. …

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Platinum and blue light combine to combat cancer

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When it comes to health care blue lights, are usually most useful on the top of ambulances but now new research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use blue light to activate what could be a highly potent platinum-based cancer treatm…

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