News tagged with harsh chemicals

Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The Martian ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Manufacturing microscale medical devices for faster tissue engineering

In the emerging field of tissue engineering, scientists encourage cells to grow on carefully designed support scaffolds. The ultimate goal is to create living structures that might one day be used to replace ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique improves efficiency of biofuel production

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a more efficient technique for producing biofuels from woody plants that significantly reduces the waste that results from conventional biofuel ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New method uses electrolyzed water for more efficient fuel production

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0