Amid concerns over the potential health effects of existing flame retardants for home furniture, fabrics and other material, scientists are reporting development of an "exceptionally" effective new retardant ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 15, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

New technology offers the promise of reducing billions of dollars of losses that occur each year from the silent, invisible killer of fruits, vegetables and cut flowers—a gas whose effects are familiar to everyone who has ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

May 15, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Imagine a TV screen that hangs on the wall like a poster and rolls up like a window shade—or a smartphone that can fold up and fit into a pocket. It may sound like science fiction, but those technological ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

May 08, 2013 2.5 / 5 (2) 0

A new "solder" for laser welding of tissue during surgical operations has the potential to produce stronger seals and expand use of this alternative to conventional sutures and stapling in intestinal surgery, ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

They're ba-ack! But in a new disease-fighting role. Viruses that infect and kill bacteria—used to treat infections in the pre-antibiotic era a century ago and in the former Soviet Union today—may have ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

May 08, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavored foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in ...

Chemistry - Other

May 08, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

Horse meat as time-honored European cuisine, its detection when mixed into meatballs and other food and the angst over consumption of chevaline in the United States, is food for a thoughtful installment of the popular Newscripts ...

Chemistry - Other

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

In an advance toward solving a 50-year-old mystery, scientists are reporting new evidence on how the fluoride in drinking water, toothpastes, mouth rinses and other oral-care products prevents tooth decay. ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 2

It may be the 21st century, but nearly half the world's population still cooks and heats with open fires or primitive stoves that burn wood, animal dung, charcoal and other polluting solid fuels. The article ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 01, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Already renowned for its beneficial effects on human health, green tea could have a new role—along with other natural plant-based substances—in a healthier, more sustainable production of the most widely used family of ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Apr 24, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 0

Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice—sometimes called "sea stalactites"—that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth's poles, scientists are ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Apr 24, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 2 |

In an advance toward coping with bacteria that shrug off existing antibiotics and sterilization methods, scientists are reporting development of a new family of selective antimicrobial agents that do not ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Apr 24, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food, a scientist said here today. Speaking at the 245th National Meeting ...

Chemistry - Other

Apr 11, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 1