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Credit: Rony Michaud/Pixabay. Researchers have created a new hydrogel tablet that can rapidly purify contaminated water. One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water and make it suitable for drinking in an hour or less. As much as a third of the world’s population don’t have access to clean
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The reason that ibuprofen treats headaches and ice cream tastes sweet is that their chemical components fit perfectly into certain receptors in your body. The better a drug or flavor molecule fits with its matching receptor, the more effective the medicine or tastier the treat. But an interesting quirk of
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Credit: Northwestern University. A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and chemical threats, such as those used in chemical warfare. A material that is effective against both classes of threats is rare.
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Credit: Barsamuphe/Wikimedia Commons. A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources. New research led by scientists at Penn State and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) demonstrates how a
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Credit: American Chemical Society. This week our host, Sam, chats with renowned baker Peter Reinhart and learns how a couple of small chemistry tweaks can transform a terrible pizza into an amazing one. Here’s our simple recipe for making stellar pizza at home: Mix 1 package (0.25 oz) of dry
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Credit: André Santana AndreMS/Pixabay. Every year, 2,000 metric tons of gaseous mercury are released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power stations and mining activities. The harmful substance then adopts various chemical forms as it circulates between the air, soil and water in a complex cycle. Mercury is particularly dangerous in
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Credit: Dieter_G/Pixabay. The color in a diamond comes from a defect, or “vacancy,” where there is a missing carbon atom in the crystal lattice. Vacancies have long been of interest to electronics researchers because they can be used as ‘quantum nodes’ or points that make up a quantum network for
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Gold. Credit: Robert von Bonsdorff/Aalto University. New method recovers 84% of gold compared to the 64% recovered with traditional methods. Gold is one of the world’s most popular metals. Malleable, conductive and non-corrosive, it’s used in jewelry, electronics, and even space exploration. But traditional gold production typically involves a famous
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Credit: Pixabay. “We have developed a new kind of catalyst that more efficiently generates clean energy from waste water that contains urea,” said the University of Adelaide’s Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials who is joint first-author of the study. “Urea is globally
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A rare earth element called terbium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Scientists have developed a luminescent sensor that can detect and measure the presence of a rare earth element called terbium. The element is used in manufacturing devices like car batteries, smart phones, energy efficient lighting and X-ray equipment. The scientists were
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Credit: Rony Michaud/Pixabay. Researchers have created a new hydrogel tablet that can rapidly purify contaminated water. One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water
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The reason that ibuprofen treats headaches and ice cream tastes sweet is that their chemical components fit perfectly into certain receptors in your body. The
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Credit: Northwestern University. A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus
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Credit: Barsamuphe/Wikimedia Commons. A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart
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Credit: American Chemical Society. This week our host, Sam, chats with renowned baker Peter Reinhart and learns how a couple of small chemistry tweaks can
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Credit: André Santana AndreMS/Pixabay. Every year, 2,000 metric tons of gaseous mercury are released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power stations and mining activities. The
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Credit: Dieter_G/Pixabay. The color in a diamond comes from a defect, or “vacancy,” where there is a missing carbon atom in the crystal lattice. Vacancies
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Gold. Credit: Robert von Bonsdorff/Aalto University. New method recovers 84% of gold compared to the 64% recovered with traditional methods. Gold is one of the
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Credit: Pixabay. “We have developed a new kind of catalyst that more efficiently generates clean energy from waste water that contains urea,” said the University
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A rare earth element called terbium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Scientists have developed a luminescent sensor that can detect and measure the presence of a rare
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