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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Bad perfume: Cardboard’s intense scentsWe often joke about food that lacks any perceptible flavor as tasting like cardboard. In fact, cardboard’s blandness is one facet of its appeal to the food industry. Manufacturers pack foods in cardboard and pizzeria’s deliver their cheese-topped pies in it precisely because it won’t affect the flavor of their products. Or at least that’s been the presumption. A pair of researchers in Germany has now catalogued 37 smelly compounds emitted by cardboard — chemicals that they argue could indeed temper the flavor and scent of foods. “Most of the identified compounds were described as...Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Found in: Chemistry, Food Science, Molecules and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Award named for late Science News writerJonathan Eberhart's name lives on in a new planetary-sciences award.Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2009Found in: Astronomy, Planetary Science and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Concerned about BPA: Check your receiptsSome cash register receipts offer the potential for relatively large exposures to an estrogen mimic.Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Found in: Chemistry, Science & Society and Technology -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10 / Science & the Public : BPA in the womb shows link to kids’ behaviorSubtle gender-linked effects seen in youngsters mirror impacts witnessed earlier in rodents. (p. 12)Published: November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10Found in: Behavior, Environment and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Measuring citations: Calculations can vary widelyDepending on how citation tallies will be used, it may pay to cherry pick the appropriate counting house.Published: Monday, October 5th, 2009Found in: Biomedicine and Planetary Science
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Though risk of death from conventional flu strains escalates dramatically, beginning around age 45, a new study finds that masks do a fair job of slowing the infection's transmission.Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2009Found in: Biomedicine, Science & Society and Technology
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A Japanese study finds that excreted Tamiflu ends up in river water, raising concerns that birds hosting a flu virus will develop drug-resistant strains.Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Found in: Biomedicine, Environment and Science & Society -
A blueprint for federal research on the potential health and environmental impacts of nanomaterials debuted today.Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Obesity epidemic may threaten mitten industryHot fingers: That appears to be one consequence of big bodies.Published: Monday, September 28th, 2009Found in: Biology, Body & Brain and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Schools need to test water, report resultsSurvey of EPA database turn up widespread problems, which may be only the tip of the iceberg.Published: Friday, September 25th, 2009Found in: Environment and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Protected whales found in Japan’s supermarketsToothless Asian whales find themselves being protected by fairly toothless regulations.Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2009Found in: Biology, Environment, Genes & Cells and Science & Society -
It took herculean effort, but Madagascar crafters created an extraordinary piece of woven art from spider silk.Published: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Found in: Biology, Materials Science, Science & Society, Technology and Zoology -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Neutrons for military and medical imagingAn accelerator-based neutron-production system is being designed to cull bombs at risk of exploding prematurely — and make the feedstock for a major isotope used in nuclear medicine.Published: Monday, September 21st, 2009Found in: Biomedicine, Physics, Science & Society and Technology -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Peer review: No improvement with practiceTo keep the quality of what they publish high, journals may have to frequently recycle the experts asked to evaluate incoming manuscripts.Published: Friday, September 18th, 2009Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
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Scientists make a case for texting and using hand-free technologies with those cell phones to which society has become addicted.Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Found in: Body & Brain, Environment, Science & Society and Technology
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