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Our Sustainable Future: A greener process for a key ingredient used to make paint, diapers, and other products
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 25, 2011 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal, ACS Catalysis, reports that scientists have developed a new catalyst that provides an environmentally way to make acrylic acid without using petroleum.
Promoting Public Health: High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 13, 2011 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith most people unable to get enough vitamin D from sunlight or foods, scientists are suggesting that a new vitamin D-fortified food bread made with high-vitamin D yeast could fill that gap.
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Don’t blame The Pill for estrogen in drinking water
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - February 16, 2011 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsContrary to popular belief, The Pill accounts for less than 1 percent of the estrogens found in the nation’s drinking water supplies, according to a recent analysis. The report in ACS’ biweekly journal Environmental Science and Technology suggests that most of the estrogens enter drinking water ...
Future Cities: The right choices on transportation can shrink your own personal carbon footprint
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 25, 2011 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal, Environmental Science and Technology, offers new insights into how people can shrink their own personal carbon footprints by selecting specific modes of transportation.
Our Sustainable Future: Biodegradable plastic from milk and clay
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 12, 2011 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith continuing concern about plastic waste accumulating in municipal landfills, and reliance on imported oil to make plastics, scientists have created an ultra-light biodegradable foam plastic material made from two unlikely ingredients.
Promoting Public Health: Black rice bran may fight inflammation
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 22, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting evidence that black rice — a little-known variety of the grain that is the staple food for one-third of the world population — may help soothe the inflammation involved in allergies, asthma, and other diseases.
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 15, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of disease-causing bacteria in water in just seconds without clogging.
Our Sustainable Future: Saving energy by reducing food waste
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 27, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA new study published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology journal provides a compelling new reason not to waste food. It saves energy, lots of money at home and fights global hunger.
In the green of health: Just five minutes of green exercise optimal for good mental health
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 20, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsNew research suggests that just five minutes of outdoor activities, such as exercising in a park, working in a backyard garden or walking on a nature trail, will benefit mental health.
Future Cities: Nanotechnology promises more sustainable buildings, bridges, and other structures
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - September 07, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsBricks, blocks, and steel I-beams — step aside. That’s because scientists are reporting that a new genre of construction materials, made from stuff barely 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, is about to debut in the building of homes, offices, bridges, and other structures. The new report high...
Developing new sources of energy: Producing cost-effective biodiesel from sewage sludge
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - August 31, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsExisting technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu.
Our Sustainable Future: “Smart” roofs that can save energy
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - August 26, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting development of a “smart” roof coating, made from waste cooking oil from fast food restaurants, that can “read” a thermometer and help save energy. Roofs coated with the material would reflect scorching summer sunlight and reduce sticker-shock air-conditioning bills. When...
Promoting Public Health: Dusting off a hidden challenge
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - July 19, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhere does dust come from? Scientists in Arizona are reporting a surprising answer to that question, which has puzzled and perplexed generations of men and women confronted with layers of dust on furniture and floors. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from ...
Promoting Public Health: Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - June 24, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting the discovery of the potential basis for a urine test to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), a difficult-to-diagnose lung disease that is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The test could save lives by allowing doctors to begin the right treat...
New fuels: Biofuels: A more economical process for making ethanol from non-food sources
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - June 10, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists in Wisconsin are reporting discovery of a way to lower the cost of converting wood, corn stalks and leaves, switch grass, and other non-food biomass materials into ethanol fuel. The process reduces amounts of costly enzymes needed to break down tough fibrous cellulose matter in biomass...
Our Sustainable Future: Roadmap for preserving the planet
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - May 28, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe United States could completely stop emissions of carbon dioxide from coal-fired electric power plants? A crucial step for controlling global warming? Within 20 years by using technology that already exists or could become commercially available within a decade, scientists are reporting. The s...
Our Sustainable Future: Decomposing BPA-containing plastic using a “fungus among us”
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - May 14, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are reporting discovery of a more sustainable way of disposing of plastics that contain bisphenol A (BPA) — without releasing that potentially harmful substance to the environment. The new method involves exposing polycarbonate plastic waste to ultraviolet light and heat. Just as cook...
Combating Disease: Coal from mass extinction era linked to lung cancer mystery
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 23, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor years, women in China’s Xuan Wei County in Yunnan Province — women who never smoked cigarettes — have been plagued by lung cancer. The mortality rates among female nonsmokers are the world’s highest — up to 20 times higher than average in China. A new study sheds light on the cancer epidemic ...
Providing Safe Foods: Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - January 04, 2010 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHigh-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), that ubiquitous sweetener in soda, fruit drinks and processed foods, may pose another problem besides adding on the pounds. Researchers have found that heating the syrup promotes formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the corn syrup ofte...
New Fuels: An “artificial leaf” for making solar-energy
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - December 04, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists are making progress toward development of an “artificial leaf” that mimics a real leaf’s chemical magic with photosynthesis — but instead converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as methanol for cars and trucks. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licen...
Promoting Public Health: Saving lives with the first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 20, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.u...
Providing safe foods: “Killer spices” provide eco-friendly pesticides for organic fruits and veggies
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - November 11, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsMention rosemary, thyme, clove, and mint and most people think of a delicious meal. These well-known spices are emerging as organic agriculture’s key weapons against insect pests. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu.
Promoting Public Health: Sandcastle worm’s secrets could yield new medical adhesive
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 26, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScientists have copied the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in an effort to develop a long-sought medical adhesive needed to repair bones shattered in battlefield injuries, car crashes and other accidents. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Co...
Confronting Climate Change: “Green” roofs can help fight global warming
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - October 15, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIf you live in the city and you like fresh veggies, herbs and flowers, how about planting a garden on your roof? “Green” roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global climate change. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed...
Confronting Climate Change: Smoke to soak up future oil spills
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - August 12, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsExperts estimate that people dump more than 200 million gallons of used oil each year into sewers, streams and backyards, resulting in a problem that has plagued wastewater treatment plants for decades. But an answer might be found in a material sometimes referred to as frozen smoke. Intro theme...
Promoting Public Health: Redefining DNA: Darwin from the atom up
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - July 22, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsDNA is the blueprint for every organism that ever swam, flew, crawled or walked on earth. Now, four billion years of evolution later, a few bold scientists have created a new genetic blueprint — with some profound applications. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed au...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Targeting Ricin
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - June 10, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s topic is research on new ways to detect and possibly treat poisoning from ricin, a potential bioterrorist agent. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu includes sounds by Halleck, samplecat and acclivity.
Our Sustainable Future: Small generator, big applications
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - May 20, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsToday’s topic is research on creating a sustainable future. This discovery could render today’s landfill-bound batteries obsolete. Imagine if all you had to do to charge your iPod or your BlackBerry was to wave your hand, or stretch your arm, or take a walk? Intro theme and music by Kevin MacL...
Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: New Solutions 2009
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 27, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, scientists from DARPA investigate whether a lethal new kind of explosive threatens America's security. Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu includes sounds by ljudman and anton.
Combating Disease: New Solutions 2009 - Much more than pasta and potatoes
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions - April 06, 2009 14:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen you think carbohydrates, spaghetti, rice and freshly baked loaves of bread usually come to mind. A group of scientists in Germany led by Peter Seeberger see carbs a bit differently. Much more than just pasta and potatoes, they envision carbohydrates as the basis of revolutionary new vaccines...
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