News tagged with cleaning products

Green cleaning solutions: Manufacturers are making more planet-friendly products, consumers are buying them

Maybe 2011 is the year a clean start means returning to Grandma's scrubbing ways and getting down on hands knees with simple baking soda and vinegar. Or maybe it means staring down that supermarket aisle of cleaning products ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Developing More Efficient Solar Energy Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alexander Agrios and his engineering research team are probing ways to make inexpensive solar cells more energy efficient.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Do cleaning products cause breast cancer?

Women who report greater use of cleaning products may be at higher breast cancer risk than those who say they use them sparingly. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health asked more t ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Wind energy companies test waters for offshore projects

The federal government on Tuesday issued its first exploratory leases for wind energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf, the first step of what could be a race to harness the powerful Atlantic winds not far from major ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Respiratory risk from hospital cleaning fluids

Cleaning fluids used in hospitals may pose a health risk to both staff and patients. A pilot study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Environmental Health has found that potentially hazardous chemicals are cont ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Iowa State researchers developing clean, renewable energy for ethanol industry

Iowa State University researchers are working to produce clean, renewable energy by developing a new, low-emissions burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0