News tagged with dry cleaning
'Dry cleaning effect' explained by forgetful Yale researcher
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Yale researchers have described how dueling brain systems may explain why you forget to drop off the dry cleaning and may point to ways that substance abusers and people with obsessive compulsive disorder can overcome bad ...
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Artificial Lotus Effect: Carbon nanotubes with nanoscopic paraffin coating form superhydrophobic, self-cleaning surfaces
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom.
Six simple steps to protect against and stop the spread of noroviruses
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Recent outbreaks of norovirus–also known as stomach flu–indicate the highly contagious, fast-moving virus is again a public health concern. The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has ...
Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers ...
New technique put to use to test clean up of contaminated groundwater
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Cleaning up the dangerous contaminants — dry-cleaning fluids, solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons — found in underground water presents one of the most urgent challenges facing environmental science. A report issued today ...
Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - ...
Smart Suit Doesn't Miss a Beat
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Imagine wearing a smart T-shirt or a suit embedded with tiny electronics that can monitor your heart or respiratory function wirelessly. When dirty, you take it off and throw it in the wash or have it dry-cleaned.
Next Generation Counterterrorism and Military Wipe Developed
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly-developed decontamination wipe designed by researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University has proven itself the best for cleaning up chemical warfare ...
Student Proving Walls (Even Sofas) Can Talk
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Most college students will admit to searching their couch cushions for extra coins to do laundry. But Jon McKinney's cushion hunt isn't about finding money. He wants to help epidemiologists identify what's ...
Poorly cleaned public cruise ship restrooms may predict norovirus outbreaks
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from Boston University School (BUSM), Carney Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University School of Medicine, have found that widespread poor compliance with regular cleaning of public restrooms ...
Instant steam takes on MRSA
Jul 30, 2007 |
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A method for making instant steam, without the need for electricity, promises to be useful for tackling antibiotic resistant ‘superbugs’ like MRSA and C. difficile, as well as removing chewing gum from pavements and powering ...
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