Given concerns over global climate warming, researchers are hard at work on minimizing the amount of fuel that we all use in everyday life. Reducing the weight of vehicles will lessen the amount of fuel required to power ...
Materials Science
Nov 5, 2020
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Environmental conservation and future sustainability require innovation from chemical engineers, from adjustments to the microscopic structure of materials to changing how large-scale industrial production is done. One pressing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 18, 2021
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It's never been easy to be a polar bear. They may have to go months without eating. Their preferred food, seal, requires enormous luck and patience to catch. Add to that the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change, ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2012
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An overwhelming number of chemicals from household and industrial products are in the environment – and hundreds are in our bodies. But for most of them, scientists have yet to determine whether they cause health problems. ...
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2014
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Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and from ETH Zurich want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. Today, these compounds are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry and have been used as ...
Materials Science
Sep 21, 2020
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can be found almost everywhere and in almost everyone and can take more than 1,000 years to break down.
Environment
Mar 22, 2023
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Seaweed and kelp are eaten by both humans and domestic animals all over the world. Several species are used in everything from cosmetics and food additives to fertilizers and medicines.
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2024
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In the future, a durable coating could help keep food-contact surfaces clean in the food processing industry, including in meat processing plants. A new study from a team of University of Missouri engineers and food scientists ...
Materials Science
Jul 16, 2020
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It is a long-cherished dream: Removing the inert greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and using it as a basic material for the chemical industry. This could address two major problems at once by containing climate ...
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Virginia used computer simulations and laboratory experiments to discover a reaction site on gold-titanium oxides that is responsible for high rates of catalysis relevant to biofuel and ...
Materials Science
Dec 4, 2012
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