News tagged with fire retardants


Carbon Nanofibers Cut Flammability of Upholstered Furniture

Carbon Nanofibers Cut Flammability of Upholstered Furniture

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have determined that adding a ...





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Brain injured athletes may benefit from hypothermia research

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NFL players and other athletes who suffer serious or multiple concussions may benefit from ground-breaking research being conducted by scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. ...


Retailers Expect a Grinch-like Christmas, Says UB Retail Expert

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unfortunately for retailers, the Grinch will be pushing the shopping cart again this holiday season, says Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Marketing Research in the University at Buffalo School of ...


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ...


GE to sell security unit to United Technologies

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.


Explained: RNA interference

Explained: RNA interference

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...


Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?

Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide ...


The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language

The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...



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