The words ‘chemical’ and ‘poison’ have become interchangeable in the popular consciousness. As a result the whole subject of chemistry has become tainted with unpleasant connotations.
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Phthalate levels correlated with infertility in men.
Federal researchers recently spent four years tracking 501 couples as they tried to have children in a study on the impact of everyday chemicals on fertility. One of the findings stood out: while both men and women were exposed to known toxic chemicals, men seemed much more likely to suffer fertility problems as a result.
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A startup says it has a more efficient process to use carbon dioxide for making valuable chemical feedstocks.
Liquid Light startup has developed an electrochemical process to use waste carbon dioxide as a starting ingredient for chemicals. The company says its method is significantly cheaper than conventional methods for converting CO2 into chemicals.
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Drones will freeze pollutants in midair with 176 pounds of chemicals.
China has decided to use drones on the front lines of its “war on pollution.” The drones will fire chemicals into the air, which will freeze pollutants and cause them to fall to the ground. Armed with 176 pounds of chemicals, which is expected to clear a five-kilometer radius, the drones will launch later this month.
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The impact of most of these “chemicals of emerging concern” on the health of people and aquatic life remains unclear.
A new report by the International Joint Commission, a consortium of officials from the United States and Canada who study the Great Lakes has found that only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants.
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Human organ-on-a-chip.
Academic collaborators and Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) are conducting research on organoids (small swatches of human tissue) on microchips.
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“You are what you eat.”
Life is different for the rich and the poor. Rich people relax by eating oysters. Poor people relax by smoking cigarettes. Based on a new study about how the presence of certain chemicals can indicate how rich or poor a person is.
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By the 1920s and 30s children had access to substances which would raise eyebrows in today’s more safety-conscious times.
When you talk to people of a certain age about chemistry sets, a nostalgic glaze comes over their eyes. The first chemistry sets for children included dangerous substances like uranium dust and sodium cyanide, but all that has changed.
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Coral reef
The Florida Keys are a magnet for tourists. But the kaleidoscope of life in the coral reefs under the turquoise waters isn’t just a pretty view. The same chemistry that helps corals and sponges survive is also helping people fight cancer.
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TrES-2b is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the starlight falling on it.
TrES-2b, a planet orbiting a distant star is darker than coal, reflecting less than one percent of the starlight falling on it, according to a paper published on Thursday.
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Bath salts are labeled “not for human consumption,” which helps them skirt a law that would make them illegal.
This spring in the emergency room at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pa, .Dr. Jeffrey J. Narmi could not believe what he was seeing. There were people arriving at the emergency room so agitated, violent and psychotic that a small army of medical workers was needed to hold them down.
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Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
A cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, can be found in a glass of milk, scientists have shown.
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