Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
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Holiday shoppers may worry if the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.
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At home. At work. In big boxes. In places you never thought of five years ago. Shopping today is done almost everywhere.
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Chemical reactions come in many varieties with the companies posting quarterly financials in the first week of 2005 -- but is it market science or ancient alchemy at play?
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Rare fragile particles are merged with ordinary electrons to create a new form of matter.
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By Douglas Fischer  Flame retardants are generating some heat of their own as concerned researchers and lawmakers note rising levels in the environment and step up efforts to ban them from everyday household products.
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The world's greatest bartenders use molecular mixology to develop off-the-wall flavor combos and surprising textures. By Jason Daley for Wired magazine.
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Swarovski crystals have created a trend in consumer technology.
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Nanoparticulates offer golden opportunities... if you know where to look.
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Speculative? Sure. But they all have intriguing compounds in development.
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The chemicals go down the drain, but in the environment they remain. Researchers have found that a complex brew of everyday compounds &#151; from products as ubiquitous as shampoo, bug spray and even that morning cup of coffee &#151; lingers in Minnesota waters even after they're showered off or dumped down the sink.
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Electronic textiles have applications far beyond cool shirts.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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A couple of new products enter the Sex Drive testing lab. In Sex Drive Daily.
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By Cai, Dawen Verhey, Kristen J; Meyhofer, Edgar  ABSTRACT Understanding dynamic cellular processes requires precise knowledge of the distribution, transport, and interactions of individual molecules in living cells.
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In life, there are certain things that are beyond indispensable. Like brake lights, hot showers, birthday candles and second chances.
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By The Boston Globe  Feb. 7--NANOTEcHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a  meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or  desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its  way.
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Scientists have discovered that byproducts of such everyday activities as using anti-bacterial hand soap or zapping mosquitoes with bug spray are winding up in streams and groundwater from the Denver area to remote spots in the Colorado mountains.