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That was the greatest ecological disaster on the sea: in 1978 the tanker "Amoco-Cadiz" contaminated with 280,000 tonnes of crude oil the coasts off Bretagne (Western France). More "famous" is the ecological catastrophe produced by Exon Valdez in 1989 on Alaska's shores. During the 1991 Gulf War, about one millio... |
30 August 2007
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Plastic is everywhere around us, and nowadays we almost drink from nothing else than plastic containers. It's so fancy to carry with you a plastic bottle and drink your water / juice / soda little by little. But while US bottled water sales are going up by an annual 9.7 %, on a market estimated at approximately ... |
16 August 2007
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This is a dwarf among elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. Now, these gentle creatures are menaced by the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat, the forests.A new research made by the World Wide Fund... |
13 August 2007
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Do you think that olive oil in the Mediterranean diet is the best? Well, it appears that you are wrong. A new research has found that fish oil, rather than vegetable oil in the diet, reduces the formation of chemicals called prostanoids, which in big amounts cause inflammation in many tissues and organs. "Prostanoids... |
30 July 2007
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Scientists believe there's a chance to solve the problem of future oil and natural gas shortages, by creating new reserves in a short time that could be regarded as just a flash compared to how much is believed to take for oil to form underground.Although there is no effective way of doing that just yet, Jennif... |
20 July 2007
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Tiny drops of an oily mixture can propel themselves in water, without external influences or fuel sources and could one day produce synthetic life in the form of artificial cells that will be able to move independently through living bodies.A special mixture of oil in the form of tiny globules, placed in water, were... |
20 July 2007
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A simple experiment produces some puzzling results and no scientific explanation for the phenomenon has been found until recently. This one can be safely performed at home and you don't need expensive equipment.First you must pour clean water onto a small, almost flat, plate. No need for distilled water, as reg... |
18 July 2007
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Sometimes the suicide bombers have more noble intentions than 72 virgins. They can save the whole colony, like in the case of the cabbage aphids that have developed a type of mustard oil "bomb" that helps them keep the predators away, as revealed by a new research. This is the first time when aphids have been found t... |
12 July 2007
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The Mediterranean cuisine considers olive oil one of the healthiest types of food. Now it appears it has a hidden quality: it can even fight the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), as found by a team from the University of Granada, Spain, headed by Professor Andrs Garca-Granados, senior lecturer in Organic Chemistry. T... |
10 July 2007
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Pumpkin seed oil is a specialty used in the Styria region of Austria and the Lower Styria, in Slovenia. Although used for centuries by the local population, a weird property of this oil could not be explained until now.This oil seems to change color for no apparent reason, depending only on the container. The visco... |
10 July 2007
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Plastics are durable and degrade very slowly. One of the main advantages of this material is the low price and incredible versatility, which led to a rapid expansion of plastic compounds in almost all industry areas.The problem is that it's made of oil and should petroleum prices continue to rise, so will the c... |
27 June 2007
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Nowadays, people turn to nature in their attempt of transitioning from certain technological processes: glucose is going to replace oil to produce fuel and different chemicals. And apparently, plastics, too. Glucose is the main energetic molecule used by plants and animals, the first sugar plants get by photosynthes... |
18 June 2007
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Everybody knows potatoes, some people love them, some people don't. But for the junk food addicts, there are some good news: future bags of chips may actually be made of potatoes, thus bringing the potato out of the bag and into the bag. A new study by the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy ... |
7 June 2007
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Nanotechnology has found yet another application in our lives and helps us recover some of the most precious works of art from as early as the Renaissance. It's a new development and a simple and cheap method for cleaning up paintings.The new method works like a nano scrub, using oil-in water nanocontainers to ... |
15 May 2007
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Bacteria come from hell. They can survive in the toughest environments. Now a team at UC Riverside has found in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in midtown Los Angeles, California, hundreds of new bacterial species that live in heavy oil and natural asphalt!Inside the 28,000 years old mix of soil and heavy oil, the bacter... |
11 May 2007
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Oil-based fuels can be costly.And in a few years, the production could become insufficient. That's why on the island of Bougainville (the largest on the Solomon archipelago, Papua New Guinea), the locals have chosen a more effective solution for fueling cars and generators: coconut oil. Currently, there are a l... |
9 May 2007
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A new material is considered a breakthrough in lubricants for auto motors, as it will greatly improve the durability and lubrication efficiency, far beyond the capabilities of current oil-based lubricants.It is called CNSC (Carbon NanoSphere Chains) and it's produced by CleanTechnology International Corp, who ... |
9 May 2007
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A synthetic alternative to imported petroleum-based fuel is what the U.S. Military - through the DARPA programs- is searching for these days, to power their 21st Century vehicles.It will probably use the same chemical technology Germany used to produce its gasoline during World War II.Sasol Technology's Delanie... |
24 April 2007
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That's it. The World's natural abundance tap is going to turn off.Between 2008 and 2018, the world will experience a last year of high oil production followed by a constant drop, as it is depicted by a new model made by Fredrik Robelius, a Swedish physicist and petroleum engineer at the University of Uppsal... |
18 April 2007
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Palm oil has been regarded as the best solution for obtaining an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to fossil fuels that would be also a solution for global warming. Thus, energy companies converted generators and energy production from palm oil increased. But new researches are increasingly pointing that:... |
2 April 2007
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We look at the Middle Ages and we tend to think that precarious hygiene and "skunk" scent characterized the human kind till relatively recent times. Wrong. A new exhibition in Rome reveals to us how people during the Bronze Age employed refined and sophisticated perfumes, typically a mix of natural spices and olive o... |
28 March 2007
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The melting of the polar ice caps due to global warming has accelerated something perhaps unexpected: an international race for oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes. The frozen north may look barren and uninhabited now, but the latest reports reveal that the northern ice cap is warming faster than the rest of the ... |
26 March 2007
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Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future. Unlike oil, hydrogen burns much more easily and is totally not contaminant as the only waste product is water. And water, as the hydrogen source, is unlimited. But current technologies do not permit hydrogen use, which is highly explosive. "One of the bottlenecks for bringing h... |
15 March 2007
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