Flame retardants found on supermarket shelves
...ed PBDEs, in foods taken straight from supermarket shelves in Dallas, Texas, suggesting that food may be a key source of the contamination measured in people around the world. The report, which was published online Sept. 1 by Environmental Science & Technology , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chem...Green tea research leads to gum and other products
...roducts, Mega-T Green Tea Chewing Gum, is on store shelves now. Each piece of the mint-flavored, sugar-free g...its. Mints and skin-care products will be on store shelves soon, he said, noting that fitness leader Denise Austin is creating a signature brand of green-tea s...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
...utrient-poor oceans typically off the continental shelves from the equator north and south to about 40 degrees latitude about which little or nothing is known in regard to unicellular nitrogen-fixing organisms, Montoya noted. "We are still at a very early stage in understanding ocean science and how things...Gene alteration points to longevity, thinness
...ivity. They may have to look no further than store shelves to find a good starting point: hydroxycitrate, an analogue of citrate found in the skin of the Indian fruit garcinia, already is being touted for its weight-loss and cholesterol-reducing properties. "We think the mechanism for how this compound works...Natural, man-made mix promises biggest landscape plant growth
...ed stores this season, consumers scan pallet-laden shelves for just the right concoction. Various formulas promise new vigor, add iron or correct a myriad of deficiencies. Fast-acting or slow-release, organic or not, everything promises to get bigger and last longer. And that's just the plant aisle. Fe...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...s and studies to determine which drugs on pharmacy shelves come from plants as opposed to those synthesized in a laboratory. In a classic case of looking afar rather than at your feet, he found that although only about 3 percent of the world's quarter-million plant species are weeds, they make up more than...UF researcher: New low-carb potato to debut in January
...hanical damage so the potatoes can arrive on store shelves with minimal defects. The variety has some resistance to tuber greening, which increases store shelf life. "The combination of good Florida soils, warm temperatures and the experience of Florida producers sets the stage for delivery of...Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
...reak away--or "calve"--from the Ross and other ice shelves in the same way that human fingernails break off when they reach a certain length. But Emslie noted, paradoxically, even if the calving is due to warming, because the icebergs are causing a concentration of sea ice that could eventually cause an aban...Nature cover story - Only 10% of all large fish are left in global ocean
...e predatory fish communities from four continental shelves and nine oceanic systems, from the beginning of exploitation to the present. For shelf ecosystems they used data from standardized research trawl surveys to track the decline in the populations of large fishes. Most surprising are the new discoverie...Bloodworm's way with copper likely provides paradigm for new materials
... used to grasp and to pluck products from the high shelves of a grocery store. In contrast to the clamworm, the bloodworm's jaws are hollow, like syringes, and are used to conduct venom into the prey. The researchers found that the jaw tip exhibits the ordered crystalline structure of the copper-based biom...May media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...f euryhaline (Mediterranean) mollusks on Black Sea shelves at ~7.5 ka. However, this paper proposes that the colonization was not a consequence of catastrophic flooding but rather the outcome of a slow establishment of two-way flow in the Bosphorus and a time lag during which the fresher waters of the deep B...New technology may benefit health care, bioterror defense
...armaceutical companies have lots of drugs on their shelves that would be great for 90 percent of the population, but which have had really bad side effects in the other 10 percent, based on their DNA. The ability to scrutinize the genes of individual patients would financially benefit the drug companies beca...Sea levels likely to rise higher than IPCC predictions
...iversity of Colorado at Boulder, suggests that ice shelves in the Antarctic may be more vulnerable to warming...ientists had generally assumed. "We found that ice shelves thought to be stable are probably susceptible to breakup," Scambos said. Since the late 1970s, ice s...NSF to support study of environmental warming in the Arctic
... sea ice created each year on thebroad continental shelves of Russia. The biological productivityof the region, in turn, supports fisheries and marine mammals,while changes in the sea ice influence climate due to the icessignificant effect on the earths heat budget. This effort represents the first coo...Officials design Web-based software for managing hazardous chemicals
...with row after row of Bunsen burners surrounded by shelves filled with all sorts of toxic chemicals? Keeping an inventory of these hazardous materials is a cumbersome chore that requires chemistry teachers constantly to fill out and update official reports to numerous regulatory agencies. Managing a high sch......lennia -- rivers, deltas, coastal zones, or marine shelves -- to get some idea of the pre-human state of aquatic ecosystems."...UNC-CH study offers new evidence that garlic protects against cancers
...ing destroyed in processing or by sitting on store shelves for a long time," Arab said. "Another possibility is that some of the people who turn to garlic supplements are sick already. That could skew the results." The small number of studies that included garlic supplements also make conclusions about their...Supermarket shelf labels help African Americans, others shop healthier, study finds
..., Mich. - Color-coded labels placed on supermarket shelves to mark healthier food choices are effective in helping guide African Americans and others in their grocery shopping, a new study from the University of Michigan shows. The education program may help shoppers lower their risk of diet-related health p...Cockroach birth control from gene discovery
.... "Don't expect roach birth control on your store shelves tomorrow," Scott cautioned. "We probably have several years' work ahead of us." For one thing, the entomologist observed, the cockroach is a much more complex organism, genetically speaking, than the thoroughly studied fruit fly. But the gene-base...... optimize nutrition. "I envision grocery store shelves lined with functional foods that target people at risk for specific health problems," predicts Fergus Clydesdale, Ph.D., professor and head, Dept. of Food Science, University of Massachusetts. "These foods may be color coded to correspond with genet...