Tag: chemistry
How does a baby ‘breathe’ while inside its mom?
Julie Pollock, University of Richmond
“Mothering” is synonymous with “nurturing,” probably because moms start providing for their kids even before they’re born.
A fetus relies...
Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment...
Erick Leite Bastos, Universidade de São Paulo
What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences...
What makes wine dry? It’s easy to taste, but much harder...
Aude Watrelot, Iowa State University
When you take a sip of wine at a family meal or celebration, what do you notice?
First, you probably note...
Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors,...
Paul E. Smith, Purdue University
In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence,...
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists...
Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University
One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to...
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms –...
The weird world of one-sided objects
David Gunderman, University of Colorado and Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
You have most likely encountered one-sided objects hundreds of times in your daily life –...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
