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A penny for your health?
Teen researchers study copper’s germ-killing prowess
Posted in Body & Health, Chemistry, Young Scientists
Tagged active surfaces, antimicrobial; Brandon Healey, bandages, copper, Fla.; bacteria, getinvolved, Intel, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, Lakeland, microbes, microorganisms, Pleasant View, Polk State College Lakeland Collegiate High School, stainless steel, surfaces, Utah; Summer Monroe, Weber High School, wounds
New bag keeps food fresh longer
Invention harnesses oxygen-trapping power of iron
Posted in Chemistry, Food & Nutrition, Technology & Engineering, Young Scientists
Tagged aerobic organisms, anaerobic environment, Carolyn Jons, Eden Prairie, Eden Prairie High School, food preservation; mold, food safety, food wrap, germs, getinvolved, Intel, International Science and Engineering Fair, iron, ISEF, Minnesota, nanoiron, resealable bags, zip-lock bags
A warming life jacket
New liner contains a substance that helps fight heat loss in chilly water
Building a better battery
Researchers develop a way to make batteries that hold more charge and don’t weaken with age
A plant enemy’s enemy
Plants use chemicals to recruit help in fighting off pests
Posted in Agriculture, Chemistry, Plants
Tagged Ali Zakir, Amanuel Tamiru, Barack Obama, botany, caterpillars, corn, corn rootworms, cotton, crop protection, Desmodium, Egyptian cotton leafworm, entomology, fall armyworm, farming, feature, features, insect communications, insects, integrated pest management, John Pickett, Kenya, larvae, Marcel Dicke, Maurice W. Sabelis, mite, moths, Napier grass, nematodes, pesticides, pests, plant breeding, plant communications, plant protection, plant signaling, plants, predation, predators, priming, push-pull, Sarah Obama, stem borer, Ted Turlings, Thomas Degen, topstories, volatiles, wasp, Zeyaur Khan
Secret signals
Animals respond to chemical messages they may not even realize they’re swapping
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged Adaptation, aphids, bombykol, Butenandt, cephalopod, chemical attractant, chemical communication, chemical messenger, Dendrobium sinense, elephant, emperor moth, fear, feature, honeybee, hormones, Jean-Henri Fabre, Jennifer Brodmann, Lamprey, longfin inshore squid, lure, luteinizing hormone, Manfred Ayasse, Marine Biological Laboratory, Monell Chemical Senses Center, nectar, octopus, orchid, pheromones, pollen, Roger Hanlon, sex attractant, silk moth, squid, topstories, Tristram Wyatt, University of Oxford, University of Ulm, Woods Hole, Wysocki
Cool Jobs: Crime scene investigators
These researchers don’t miss a clue
Posted in Chemistry, STEM Careers
Tagged blood, blowflies, bones, cadaver, cool jobs, crime scene, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, DNA, evidence, FBI, feature, fingerprints, Forensic Anthropology Center, forensics, genes, Kendall Stoner, maggots, polymerase chain reaction, Reanna Day, the Body Farm, William Bass
Harder than diamonds?
Researchers create new material that may be world’s hardest
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged Bertil Sundqvist, buckyball, carbon, chemical bonds, chemical structure, diamond, diamond anvil cell, fullerene, getinvolved, high pressure, Lin Wang, molecules, soccer ball, super tough, topstories, xylene
Tiny bubbles, be gone
The right surface can determine how water boils
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged boil, bubbles, chemistry, explosions, getinvolved, Glaco Mirror Coat Zero, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, materials science, Northeastern University, states of matter, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Melbourne, water repellant, water vapor
Making rocks into magnets
Lab experiments show one way that certain types of stones can morph into magnets
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