The world's largest multinational tobacco companies are advertising cigarettes to kids near playgrounds and schools in 42 majority low- and middle-income countries. That's the key finding of our recently published paper.
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2022
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Researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering are developing a new way to detect potentially deadly Listeria contamination in food.
Biochemistry
Aug 10, 2022
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Researchers led by Prof. Huang Qing from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new method to evaluate the antioxidant activity of astaxanthin isomers against singlet ...
Biochemistry
Jul 14, 2022
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Researchers investigating the exposure of small mammals to plastics in England and Wales have found traces in the feces of more than half of the species examined.
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2022
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In the meat industry, it's common practice to turn the whole animal into food products. In the fish industry, over half of the weight of the fish ends up as side-streams which never reach our plates. This takes a toll on ...
Biotechnology
Jun 28, 2022
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The old adage that oil and water don't mix isn't entirely accurate. While it's true that the two compounds don't naturally combine, turning them into one final product can be done. You just need an emulsifier, an ingredient ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2022
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Food packages fulfill their most important tasks when they protect food and minimize waste. Thin plastic films are nevertheless difficult to recycle, and they often end up in the wrong places after use.
Materials Science
Jun 7, 2022
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An environmentally friendly spray that targets and kills one of cotton's (and the world's) most damaging agricultural pests—silverleaf whitefly—has been created by scientists at The University of Queensland.
Biotechnology
May 17, 2022
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Citrus peel and pulp is a growing waste problem in the food industry and in the home. However, there is potential to extract something useful from it. Work in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management ...
Biotechnology
May 13, 2022
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Rising competition for many of the world's important crops is sending increasing amounts toward uses other than directly feeding people. These competing uses include making biofuels; converting crops into processing ingredients, ...
Agriculture
May 13, 2022
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