News tagged with preservative
Preserving arson evidence with triclosan
A preservative in toothpastes, hand soaps, underarm deodorants and other everyday products is getting a second life, helping crime scene investigators preserve evidence of arson, scientists reported here today at the 243rd National M ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Mitsui to pay record fine for Gulf oil spill
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui will pay $90 million for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in US history, authorities said Friday.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years
A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Food without preservatives -- thanks to self-cleaning equipment
Eclairs and other pastries should taste light and fluffy. If the pastry dough contains too many microorganisms, though, it will not rise in the oven. Now, researchers have devised a system that cleans itself ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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A volcanic idea to reverse climate change
Scientists believe that our warming world may face catastrophic changes to its natural environment, including droughts, rising oceans and fiercer, more frequent hurricanes.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Microbiologist discovers new super-preservative
(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of those freak accidents that sometimes occur in science, where someone is looking at something for one purpose and finds another for it, Dan O'Sullivan has found a use for a byproduct of harmless ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Up close and personal with snakes
A death adder has a face only a mother could love, but that hasn't stopped PhD student Melissa Bruton, from the University of Queensland's School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management from getting ...
May 03, 2011 |
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'Nano-bricks' may help build better packaging to keep foods fresher longer
Scientists are reporting on a new material containing an ingredient used to make bricks that shows promise as a transparent coating for improving the strength and performance of plastic food packaging. Called "nano-bricks," ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Reserve saves trees but not monarch butterflies
(AP) -- This small patch of mountain fir forest is a model of sorts for the global effort to save trees and fight climate change. The problem is that saving trees has not saved the forest's most famous visitors: ...
Nov 27, 2010 |
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Study suggests alternative to using preservatives in nasal spray
A preservative-free alternative to standard nasal sprays -- which routinely use preservatives that can cause unwanted side effects, such as allergies or damage to the mucosal lining of the nose -- was found to be both safe ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Conservation of the royal warship Vasa evaluated
The conservation of the royal warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was raised in 1961, has provided a unique insight into how large waterlogged wooden archaeological relics ...
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Preservation of food in glass or can 'revolutionary', still used two centuries later
We owe the industrial revolution to it, expeditions depended on it and waging war would never be the same again - preserved food in glass or cans. We have now had it for exactly 200 years. Five questions about tinned food.
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates
In the quest to save the endangered Florida panther, their Texas cousins were the cat's meow. Wildlife biologists moved eight female panthers from Texas - close relatives yet genetically distinct - into south ...
Sep 23, 2010 |
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'Digital genome' time capsule stored under the Swiss Alps
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Europe have created a time capsule they call a 'digital genome,' and deposited it in a bunker known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which lies deep beneath the ski slopes of the Swiss ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 21, 2010 |
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Fertility procedures need not delay breast cancer treatment for younger women
A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that breast cancer patients under 40 years old who undergo fertility preservation do not face a significant delay in the ...
Nov 12, 2009 |
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