9+ hour, 19+ min ago  (141+ words) UMBC building evacuated due to chemical spill in chemistry building AOL. com A building on the UMBC campus was evacuated Tuesday morning due to an isolated chemical spill. The 30 most disturbing serial killer movies of all time, ranked Barack Obama…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (159+ words) Researchers at Aalto University in Finland used an innovative process to create a dress out of wood from a ship that sank during the 1600s. Ioncell, which was developed at the university, used only salt and water to transform remnants of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (162+ words) What is methyl methacrylate? Chemical inside Garden Grove tank and its effects on humans, animals AOL. com The toxic chemical leaking from a large storage tank in Garden Grove is methyl methacrylate, or MMA - a highly hazardous substance that can…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (496+ words) Current laws are not doing enough to protect the environment or public health against "forever chemicals", a new study has warned. Research by the University of Portsmouth and the Marine Conservation Society tested for polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Solent,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (490+ words) Residents' concerns over potential chemical pollution at a former RAF base need to be answered "with urgency", an MP has said. Former RAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, which was used by US forces until the 1990s, has already been partly redeveloped,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (606+ words) New Form Of Aluminum Could Replace Precious Metals For A Fraction Of The Cost AOL. com One of the more common uses of rare transition metals is to act as catalysts. Catalysts are basically substances that speed up chemical reactions…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (678+ words) In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40 C if left still (unmoving). In order to actually freeze this water below 0 C, there must be something (a "template) to provide the exact…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (485+ words) New research identifies southeast Georgia as one of the earliest regions to cultivate bread wheat, with radiocarbon-dated grains from 5922 to 5747 B. C. E. " offering the oldest known physical evidence of the crop. The wheat species identified, Triticum aestivum, still accounts for about 95% of…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (179+ words) Dolomite is a mineral usually formed from limestone and magnesium, but while it's common in nature, lab experiments have failed to replicate its growth. The issue with previous attempts to grow dolomite was that its layers of calcium and magnesium…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (954+ words) New research offers a clearer answer. A study led by Prof. DU Zhixue at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that far more water may have been stored deep inside Earth than scientists once…...