Tag: Lead
Cinnamon, spice and ‘everything nice’ – why lead-tainted cinnamon products have...
Katarzyna Kordas, University at Buffalo
Spices bring up feelings of comfort, cultural belonging and holidays. They can make our...
Lead from old paint and pipes is still a harmful and...
Aaron Specht, Purdue University
Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes severe health effects such as neurological damage, organ...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Each October, the...
A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew...
Bill Kovarik, Radford University
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General...
Lead exposure during childhood may influence adult personality, and not for...
Ted Schwaba, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
The Research Brief is a short take...
What’s in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist warns there are lots of...
Luke Montrose, Boise State University
Something unusual happened this year in Idaho. Fire and health officials began issuing warnings...
Biden’s infrastructure plan targets lead pipes that threaten public health across...
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system...
Nearly 60 million Americans don’t drink their tap water, research suggests...
Asher Rosinger, Penn State
Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that...
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
