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Scientists Have Finally Discovered How To Make The Best Bloody Mary On The...
A perfect Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning could be the best thing that ever happened to the human race. It's tangy, it's sweet, it's spicy...and there's alcohol. Need I say more? Flavor chemist Neil...
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Dow Chemical Explains Why A New Recession Would Be Less Painful Than The Last...
Dow Chemical execs assured banks at a recent investor's day that a new recession would hurt them less than the old recession. Here's the main argument via Barclays, which offers a neutral rating on...
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Your Brain Is Wired To Be Negative: Here's How To Fight Back
Like it or not—and this one’s really hard to like—we all have a negativity bias. While we appreciate positive experiences, we are much more finely attuned and give much greater weight to negative...
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Self-Healing Plastic Is Something Out Of A Sci-Fi Movie
Researchers have created a genre of plastics that change color to warn of wounds and heal themselves when exposed to light, as reported by EurekAlert!. The new plastic, introduced at the 243rd...
View ArticleHow The New Mars Rover Will Use Chemistry To Search For Martians
Curiosity, the new Mars rover, is essentially a mobile chemistry lab decked out with instruments to analyze soil samples from the red planet to test for microbial life. Watch the video above to get a...
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This Detector Finds Tiny Amounts Of Nerve Gases By Their Sound
A new system to detect chemical warfare attacks can identify incredibly low levels of dangerous toxins in the air by their sound. The new technique can detect multiple dangerous chemicals in the air...
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Chemist Who Faked Drug Tests Could Unravel Thousands Of Convictions
A chemist who tested more than 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants over nine years has admitted to faking drug sample results, according to a police report obtained...
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SCIENTISTS HAVE CREATED A NEW ELEMENT
After nine years in a laboratory, Japanese scientists announced on Wednesday that they finally created element 113, an element that does not occur naturally on Earth. At least, they're pretty sure...
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Some People Are Literally Paralyzed When They Doze Off
In your dreams, you’re the star of your own movie—and your subconscious often has you performing stunts that would put Tom Cruise to shame. But even if you’re swinging around the top of the Burj...
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Two Americans Win Chemistry Nobel Prize For Research That Will Help Make...
US chemists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the Nobel Prize on Wednesday for identifying a class of cell receptor, yielding vital insights into how the body works at the molecular level. The...
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These Everyday Items Were Dosed With Radium Until We Discovered It Was Toxic
Radium was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898. In 1903, the Royal Academy of Sciences awarded Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, making Marie...
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Prosecutor Tied To Chemist Who Faked Drug Tests Resigns
A Massachusetts prosecutor has resigned in the wake of a scandal that threatens to unravel thousands of drug cases in the state, Ally Donnelly of NECN reports. Chemist Annie Dookhan, 34, was arrested...
View ArticlePaper-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets In Their Tracks
If researchers from Rice University and MIT have their way, the super soldier of the future will be outfitted in razor-thin armor that's impervious to bullets. The team of mechanical engineers and...
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Does Eating Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?
After Thanksgiving dinner, many people start to feel a little drowsy.Turkey typically gets the blame.It supposedly contains high levels of tryptophan, an amino acid that is sold in a purified form to...
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Between Glugs Of That Boxed Wine, Make Sure To Put It In The Fridge
This post originally appeared on Futurity.org and is available through a Creative Commons license.In the most comprehensive study to date on how storage temperature affects wines with different...
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How Hormones Determine If You Are Generous Or Selfish
Chemicals in your body can influence how generous or selfish you are, and, in recent years, experiments have explored the role of one called oxytocin — which one researcher calls the "moral...
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How Happy A Woman Is In Her Relationship Fluctuates With Her Hormones
A woman's relationship satisfaction changes as she nears ovulation, when she's most fertile.But whether or not she's more or less happy with her guy depends on his sex appeal.In a new study,...
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These Deep Sea Vents Hint At The Origins Of Life
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.At the origin of life, the first protocells must have needed a vast amount of energy to...
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Spray Coating For Road Cracks Can Save Billions Of Dollars A Year
Concrete is great stuff, but when it gets damaged it can be annoying and dangerous. When used to make roads and bridges it can also be hell on your car's suspension, tires, and gas mileage. Concrete...
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Why The Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Was So Deadly
It may seem incredible that a substance can be both nourishing and lethal.But that's the case in the explosion at the fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, which witnesses likened to a nuclear...
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