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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...

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Facts 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 –...

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The 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...

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Reforming 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...

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The 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...

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New 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...

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A 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...

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Onion 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...

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Ancient 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...

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Discovering 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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