13-05-2013

Residents living in areas near natural gas operations, also known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are concerned their illnesses may be a result of nearby drilling operations. Twenty-two percent of the participants in a small pilot study surmise that hydrofracking may be the cause of ...

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03-05-2013

In an advance toward solving a 50-year-old mystery, scientists are reporting new evidence on how the fluoride in drinking water, toothpastes, mouth rinses and other oral-care products prevents tooth decay. Their report appears in the ACS journal Langumir.Karin Jacobs and colleagues explain ...

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29-04-2013

After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show exactly how trees help create one of society's predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit isoprene, ...

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02-04-2013

Toxicity problems and adverse side effects when taking lithium, the mainstay medication for treating bipolar disorder, are fostering a scientific hunt for insights into exactly how lithium works in the body — with an eye to developing a safer alternative, published in the current edition of ...

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12-12-2012

A multimedia feature in the New York Times outlines efforts in the United States and Europe to develop sign language versions of specialized terms used in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The article shares newly defined signs for terms like "light-year," "organism" and ...

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16-03-2012

A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes, scientists are reporting in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. They describe a range of ...

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11-01-2012

Air Products announced it has reached agreements for The Linde Group to purchase its Homecare business in Belgium, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain. The transactions are subject to regulatory approval and employee consultation requirements. The total purchase price for Air Products’ ...

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Gut reactions: Microbes and toxins might be making you fat or diabetic

09-11-2011

Could persistent pollutants like DDT and PCBs or chemicals found in plastics be making you fat or diabetic? The answer may depend on what sort of bacteria you have churning around in your gut, according to Cornell scientists.In a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Suzanne ...

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20-09-2011

It's been long known that asbestos spells trouble for human cells. Scientists have seen cells stabbed with spiky, long asbestos fibers, and the image is gory: Part of the fiber is protruding from the cell, like a quivering arrow that's found its mark.But scientists had been unable to ...

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01-09-2011

Young Indian children exposed to lead poisoning scored low on tests that measured hand-eye coordination, a new study found. Researchers conducted the study on children living in Chennai, India, and examined how lead exposure influenced scores on three motor skill tests – copying figures, ...

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