Author Archive for: David Bradley (472)

Making Plastic From Coffee

Making Plastic From Coffee

Renewable starting materials based on quinic acid from coffee beans can be used to synthesize polycarbonates

Nano Safety

Nano Safety

The safety of nanoparticles is under constant examination and recent research suggests their toxicity does not depend on size

Zen and the Art of fMRI

Zen and the Art of fMRI

How decision making by Buddist meditators differs from that of ordinary people revealed by neuroimaging techniques

Detecting Melamine in Milk

Detecting Melamine in Milk

Immunoassay that uses an optical biosensor can screen infant formula milk products for the toxic chemical melamine

Cyclic and Multitalented

Cyclic and Multitalented

A tool for synthetic organic chemists, (E,E)-1,5-cyclooctadiene, could find wide utility in chemical biology and polymer chemistry

Diabetic Difference

Diabetic Difference

Glycogen, the glucose buffer in animals, is differently structured in type 2 diabetes according to a chromatographic and electrophoresis study

Like to Like

Like to Like

Make your micelles small enough and like charges attract. That's the startling conclusion of Indian researchers studying these biomimetic systems

Archeological Warning

Archeological Warning

Spectroscopy shows that environmental conditions must be considered when interpreting the chemistry of teeth and bones from an archeological dig

How to Poison Honeybees

How to Poison Honeybees

Honeybees might imbibe a toxic dose of insecticide from tiny dropletsthat form on seedlings from coated seeds