Pickle spoilage bacteria that turns pickles red during fermentation may help environment by cleaning up dyes in textile industry wastewater, according to info from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).This new discovery was made by accident, as Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist Ilenys Pérez... |
18 September 2010
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Up until now, scientists have always considered that the only possible way of producing plastic, one of the main materials in our civilization, is through modifying and altering fossil fuels, primarily oil. But now, a team of South Korean scientists has managed to produce the compound for the first time without using... |
23 November 2009
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So what is really the cause of apples remaining healthier than pears for a much longer time after being picked up? Scientists argue that it all has to do with oxygen and the way it behaves in order to reach the center of the fruit. By using one of the most powerful light sources in the world, Pieter Verboven of the C... |
12 July 2008
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Bloating is one of those embarrassing conditions that affect the vast majority of people and yet very few of us are willing to openly talk about it - for obvious reasons. The corollary of this "hush-hush" attitude, the fact that we rarely talk about bloating and usually just grit our teeth and do our best to hide it,... |
9 June 2008
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Oil sands, or most commonly known as tar sands, are a mix of sand, water and extremely heavy crude oil components, which can be subjected to a destructive distillation process, in order to obtain part of the petroleum derivate extracted during regular oil distillation process. Aside from the fact that the mixture con... |
13 December 2007
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