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5-9-2010 Levels of controversial soap chemical rise
Gepubliceerd op: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:10 +0200

New Scientist , 13 augustus 2010

 
Levels of a controversial anti-bacterial additive present in the urine of people in the US jumped by over 40 per cent in two years. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data on the levels of 212 chemicals in 2400 volunteers in the US. meer ...

5-9-2010 Prawns on Prozac, whatever next? Crabs on cocaine?
Gepubliceerd op: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:13:03 +0200

New Scientist , 7 juli 2010 by Caitlin Stier

 
Second-hand Prozac in waste water could be sending shrimps' swimming patterns haywire, making them easy targets for predators.
 
Alex Ford and Yasmin Guler at the University of Portsmouth in the UK collected local shrimp, Echinogammarus marinus, and ob
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5-9-2010 Better living through green chemistry: Electronics
Gepubliceerd op: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:16:35 +0200

New Scientist, 12 maart 2010 by Sarah Everts

 
The millions of nifty electronic gadgets we buy and throw away each year are heavily dosed with chemicals. Building a microcircuit takes between 800 and 1000 steps, and requires potentially toxic chemicals such as xylene, mercury, sulphuric acid, phth
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28-8-2010 Quantum computers do chemistry
Gepubliceerd op: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:57:55 +0200

New Scientist , 11 januari 2010 by Colin Barras

 A team of quantum physicists has taken the first steps towards using a quantum computer to predict how a chemical reaction will take place.

Even the most powerful classical computers struggle when trying to calculate how molecules will interact in a chemical reaction. That
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28-8-2010 Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed
Gepubliceerd op: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:15:13 +0200

New Scientist , 22 januari 2010 by Andy Coghlan

MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize. An external analysis of the data claims it shows that eating the maize could resul
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