Texas company: Microwave keeps bread mold at bay (Update)
A Texas company could have the answer to some consumers' unwelcome discovery that just-purchased loaves contain mold.
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Dark beer has more iron than pale beer
A team of researchers from the University of Valladolid (Spain) has analysed 40 brands of beer, discovering that dark beer has more free iron than pale and non-alcoholic beers. Iron is essential to the human diet, but also ...
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Aug 11, 2011
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Pharmacists crucial in plan for terrorist chemical weapons
Terrorist attacks with chemical weapons are a real possibility, according to a study that appears in the online open access journal, Journal of Pharmacy Practice, published by SAGE. Thanks to their extensive knowledge of ...
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Dec 10, 2011
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Culinary biomimicry
(Phys.org) —As any chef knows, preparing good food is just physics, or was that chemistry? Either way, the state of the art in cooking increasingly looks to science for inspiration. Engineers at MIT have partnered up with ...
Clean algae biofuel project leads world in productivity
Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
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Nov 4, 2009
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When will artificial molecular machines start working for us?
Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular ...
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Nov 25, 2011
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Turning harmful CO2 into useful chemicals
Making important raw materials for fine chemicals out of carbon dioxide really works. As part of the Max Planck collaborative project eBioCO2n, a team of researchers from Fraunhofer IGB have successfully performed a first ...
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Jan 13, 2022
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Chemical contaminants in foods—health risks and public perception
Important changes are underway in the food industry, as food production becomes an increasingly global process. This transition is creating challenges for food manufacturers, regulators, and consumers as well. Challenges ...
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Nov 19, 2015
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Video: What happens when you swallow gum?
It's a legendary piece of playground lore: If you swallow a piece of gum, it stays stuck in your stomach forever. So was your elementary-school buddy right?
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May 17, 2016
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Video: The Statue of Liberty's true colors
The Statue of Liberty is an iconic blue-green symbol of freedom. But did you know she wasn't always that color?
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