Gluten Free and Tasty!
Cereals are good for you, supplying the body with carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins. Yet some people are intolerant to the gluten protein they contain. Now, researchers are developing new recipes...
View ArticleFacts About Plasma
Like fish in the ocean, we humans too, live in a giant ocean. We spend all our lives in a gigantic ocean of plasma, but we’re barely aware what it is! Physicist Max Babi explains all about plasma –...
View ArticleThe structure of vetiver odorants
Approximately one third of all fragrances on the market contain vetiver oil as a key ingredient, for which no synthetic odorant is commercially available. Instead it has to be distilled from the dried...
View ArticleReforming in Supercritical Water
Almost everything we use today – plastics, medicines, synthetic fabrics – is made by some chemical process or the other. Many of these require organic solvents like benzene or acetone, which are...
View ArticleThe History of Matches
From history books, we know that Stone Age people would rub two pieces of flint very hard to produce a fire. Nowdays we just strike a match, and it lights up immediately. Ever wondered how we came...
View ArticleNew Drug Cuts Risk of Deadly Transplant Side Effect in Half
A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a study from researchers at the...
View ArticleA sad tale to TEL
You may have heard an elder asking for unleaded petrol at a pump. Do you know why lead was once added to petrol? And why it was discontinued later? The problem of ‘knocking’ in engines In the early...
View ArticleOnion Can Soak Up Heavy Metal
Onion and garlic waste from the food industry could be used to mop up hazardous heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, iron, lead, mercury and tin in contaminated materials, according to a research...
View ArticleAncient red dye powers new ‘green’ battery
A natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles – has found a second life as the basis for a new “green” battery. Chemists from The City College of New York teamed...
View ArticleDiscovering The Mystery Of DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), is sometimes called the most important chemical on earth, because it makes up our genes. But did you know the tale of its discovery was a long journey, involving many...
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