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Combating Disease: Paper-based device could bring medical testing to remote locales
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 27, 2014 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn remote regions of the world where electricity is hard to come by and scientific instruments are even scarcer, conducting medical tests at a doctor’s office or medical lab is rarely an option. Scientists are now reporting progress toward an inexpensive point-of-care, paper-based device to fill...
Confronting Climate Change: Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Sediment trapped behind dams makes them ‘hot spots’ for greenhouse gas emissions
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 13, 2014 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith the “green” reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world make an important contribution to the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change. Their study, showing that more methane than previ...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - December 09, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs the Fukushima crisis continues to remind the world of the potential dangers of nuclear disposal and unforeseen accidents, scientists are reporting progress toward a new way to detect the radioactive materials uranium and plutonium in waste water. Their report on the design of a highly sensiti...
Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 25, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, individual viruses. Their study on the light-weight device, which conver...
Our sustainable future: A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 11, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA new process can convert a wide variety of vegetable and animal fats and oils — ranging from lard to waste cooking oil — into a key ingredient for making plastics that currently comes from petroleum, scientists say. Their report on the first-of-its-kind process appears in the journal ACS Sustai...
Confronting Climate Change - Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Big environmental footprints: 21 percent of homes account for 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 28, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsEnergy conservation in a small number of households could go a long way to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are reporting. Their study, which measured differences in energy demands at the household level, appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Our Sustainable Future: An environmentally friendly battery made from wood
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 14, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according t...
Combating Disease: First dual-action compound kills cancer cells, stops them from spreading
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - September 30, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according t...
Webinar Podcast: How to Automate and Enhance Static Headspace Gas Chromatography Determinations, June 13, 2013
Chemical & Engineering News Webinars Podcasts - September 11, 2013 15:16 - 1 hourMassimo Santoro, Marketing Manager, Thermo Fischer Scientific describes how to Automate and Enhance Static Headspac Gas Chromatography Determinations, is a widely used sampling technique for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in liquid and solid matrixes by gas chromatography. This techni...
New Fuels – Biofuels: Duckweed as a cost-competitive raw material for biofuel production
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - August 12, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that turns ponds and lakes green. That’s the topic of a report in ACS’ journal Industrial and Engineerin...
Our Sustainable Future: Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - July 25, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to sop up oil. Their report, which includes some of the first scientifi...
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - July 15, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsUsing the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS’ journal...
Confronting Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions: A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - June 24, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning — while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas — has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use, scientists are reporting. Their study in the ACS journal Energy and Fuels describes results of a...
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: The first caffeine-‘addicted’ bacteria
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - June 10, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsSome people may joke about living on caffeine, but scientists now have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to do that — literally. Their report in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology describes bacteria being “addicted” to caffeine in a way that promises practical uses ranging from decontaminat...
Promoting Public Health: Six in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - May 28, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and the surrounding community from harmful health effects, a new study has found. The research, publ...
Our sustainable future: First mobile app green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - May 13, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s episode describes the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustainable principles of green chemistry. It is the topic of a report in ACS’ new journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. The report on the pigment appears in ACS' Journal ...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Ancient “Egyptian blue” pigment points to new telecommunications, security ink technology
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 22, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is an ancient Egyptian blue pigment used 5,000 years ago. The pigment is giving modern scientists clues toward the development of new nanomaterials that could have uses in medical imaging devices, remote controls, security ink and other technologies. The report on the pigment ap...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Toward a better cyanide antidote for terrorist attacks and other mass casualty events
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - March 11, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is a promising substance that could be the basis for the development of a better antidote for cyanide poisoning. This is an advance toward closing a major gap in defenses against terrorist attacks and other mass casualty events. The report, which describes a potential antidote t...
Providing nutritious foods: A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - February 25, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s episode describes a new process for blowing up grains of rice to produce a super-nutritious form of puffed rice. The new rice has three times more protein and a rich endowment of other nutrients that make it ideal for breakfast cereals, snack foods and nutrient bars for school lunch prog...
Our Sustainable Future: New twist on using biomass for cosmetic, personal care and antioxidant-containing products
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - February 11, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is a new approach for tapping biomass as a sustainable raw material for ingredients in sunscreens, perfumes and other personal care products. The approach could open up new economic opportunities for tropical countries that grow such plants. A report appears in the Journal of th...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 28, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is a simple way to improve the sensitivity of the test often used to detect traces of explosives on the hands, carry-ons and other possessions of passengers at airport security screening stations. A group of scientists reported their innovation in ACS’ The Journal of Physical C...
Combating Disease: Leaves of carob tree, source of chocolate substitute, fight virulent food-poisoning bacteria
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 14, 2013 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is an antibacterial extract from the leaves of the carob tree (the source of a popular chocolate substitute) that could fight the microbe responsible for the serious form of food poisoning called listeriosis. The research appears in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Confronting Climate Change: Stop-Gap Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Speed limits on cargo ships could reduce their pollutants by more than half
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - December 10, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s report concludes that putting a speed limit on cargo ships as they sail near ports and coastlines could cut their emission of air pollutants by up to 70 percent. That would reduce the impact of marine shipping on Earth’s climate and on human health, the scientists say. Their evaluation o...
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: New analysis of drinking water-related gastrointestinal illness
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 26, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s episode describes a study finding that the distribution system piping in U.S. public water systems that rely on non-disinfected well water or “ground water” may be a largely unrecognized cause of up to 1.1 million annual cases of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI). That illness involve...
Our Sustainable Future: White rot fungus boosts ethanol production from corn stalks, cobs and leaves
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 12, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s solution is a fungus that shows promise in the search for a way to use waste corn stalks, cobs and leaves – rather than corn itself – to produce ethanol to extend supplies of gasoline. The research appears in the ACS’ journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research.
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 22, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s report concludes that contrary to popular belief, purified drinking water from home faucets still contains bacteria. And scientists are reporting discovery of a plausible way to manipulate those populations of mostly beneficial microbes to potentially benefit consumers.
New fuels: The sun and more: Transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 08, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s episode describes development of a new transparent solar cell, an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside.
New Fuels: The Sun and More: Toward super-size wind turbines: Bigger wind turbines do make greener electricity
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - September 24, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s study could solidify the trend toward construction of gigantic windmills. In a report in ACS’ journal Environmental Science and Technology, scientists have concluded that the larger the wind turbine, the greener the electricity it produces.
Promoting Public Health: Green plants reduce pollution on city streets up to eight times more than previously believed
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - September 10, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s report concludes that trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed. A report on the research appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science...
Combating Disease: A non-antibiotic approach for treating urinary tract infections
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - August 13, 2012 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s episode describes a potential new approach for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs) without traditional antibiotics.
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