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What is BPA and why is it in so many plastic products?
Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a chemical widely used to make hard, clear plastics. It is…
The contagious capacity of a single drop of saliva analyzed for the first time
A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has established that the two-meter safety distance…
Wearable antimicrobial copper nanomesh sticks to human skin, killing microbes nearly instantly
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo, the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and…
Before chickens became food for people, they were regarded as special exotica
There are more chickens than any other species of bird on the planet. With three chickens…
Study finds evidence of resonant Raman scattering from surface phonons of Cu(110)
Researchers at Johannes Kepler University in Linz have been investigating the physical properties of Cu(110), a…
Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson
Symmetries make the world go round, but so do asymmetries. A case in point is an…
Zone-by-zone study of Central Asia shows hotter and drier deserts and warmer and wetter mountains due to climate change
A pair of researchers at the University of Nebraska’s School of Natural Resources and Department of…
How the first biomolecules could have been formed
The chemical precursors of present-day biomolecules could have formed not only in the deep sea at…
Another few weeks of observations could tell us if the Wow! signal repeats
In the decades-long search for extraterrestrial intelligence, there has never been confirmed evidence of an alien…