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Industrial salt sold as food salt in Iceland for 13 years

Industrial salt not intended for human consumption has been sold in Iceland as food salt for 13 years by mistake, Icelandic officials said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's elemental: Paper celebrates discovery of iodine

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which was discovered ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

A revolution in knot theory

In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin made the inspired guess that elements are knots in the "ether". Hydrogen would be one kind of knot, oxygen a different kind of knot---and so forth throughout the periodic table ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Drying intensifying wildfires, carbon release ninefold, study finds

Drying of northern wetlands has led to much more severe peatland wildfires and nine times as much carbon released into the atmosphere, according to new research led by a University of Guelph professor.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Endangered species? Should cheap phosphorus be first on an elemental 'Red List?'

Should the periodic table bear a warning label in the 21st century or be revised with a lesson about elemental supply and demand? If so, that lesson could start with one element considered a staple of life – but growing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover material with graphene-like properties

After the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists in 2010 who had studied the material graphene, this substance has received a lot of attention.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Packing in six times more storage density with the help of table salt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr Joel Yang from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, with collaborators from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Eating green veggies improves immune defenses

Researchers reporting online in the journal Cell on October 13th have found another good reason to eat your green vegetables, although it may or may not win any arguments with kids at the dinner table.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's true! Scientists HAVE written the world's smallest periodic table

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2012 Guinness World Records has been published and confirms that scientists at The University of Nottingham hold the record for writing the world’s smallest periodic table. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tests to assess how elevators, fire systems perform in earthquakes

Structural engineers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are preparing for a series of earthquake tests focused on nonstructural components, including a functioning elevator, stairs, ceilings, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Toxic chemicals at Australian CSG sites

A major Australian coal seam gas miner on Sunday said it had discovered traces of carcinogenic chemicals at a number of its monitoring sites, fuelling debate about the contentious industry.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Australian mining tycoon blasts coal seam gas

Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer on Saturday hit out at the country's growing coal seam gas industry, saying there were concerns it could lead to environmental contamination.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 11

Scientists to shake 5-story building in Japan

Landmark earthquake engineering tests this summer in Japan by the University of Nevada, Reno could open the door for earthquake-proofing technology applied to hospitals, nuclear power plants and emergency-response facilities ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pocket chemistry: DNA helps glucose meters measure more than sugar

Glucose meters aren't just for diabetics anymore. Thanks to University of Illinois chemists, they can be used as simple, portable, inexpensive meters for a number of target molecules in blood, serum, water ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast