Common household fragrances may be harming aquatic wildlife, study finds
...s observed, even two days after the gills had been washed clean. "What we found is that musks are harmful in the sense that they compromise the defense system and let other chemicals in that could be more harmful," Epel said. "The amazing thing is that, even if you wash the chemical fragrance away, there's ...Gimli gobblers Mercury scientists to conduct unique human experiment next week
...ll eat two meals a day of local Lake Winnipeg fish washed down with six cups of black tea. The other half will eat the fish but drink no tea. Participants will provide blood samples for mercury level testing at the beginning and end of the conference. (Dr. Lucotte stresses that the Lake Winnipeg fish were c...Purdue researchers align nanotubes to improve artificial joints
...mall container. After one hour, the nanotubes were washed and a microscope was used to count how many of the dyed osteoblasts adhered to the material. Out of 3,000 bone cells per square centimeter of surface area, about 80 percent specifically stuck to and aligned with the carbon nanotubes - or about twice ...Scientists name world's whiffiest cheese
... testing in the future. The smelliest cheeses were washed rind cheeses. There was no obvious correlation be...te the smell chart." Cheeses whose rinds are washed (in a salt water solution, beer or brandy) were rated smelliest. Tops was Vieux Boulogne followed b...Healthy mix of GI tract microbes are key to preventing allergies and asthma
...s and tiny hairs lining the respiratory tract are washed into the stomach where they come in direct contact with immune cells in the GI tract. "Think of the body as a big tube with everything from nose to rear end exposed to allergens from the outside world," Huffnagle says. "The immune system's normal res...Pinatubo's rivers show the danger isn't over when volcanic eruption ends
...at still have vast amounts of sediment that can be washed away easily. Pinatubo's location, in the tropics not far north of the equator, makes it subject to torrential rains from monsoons and typhoons. "In one of the streams we're studying, nothing can live. If a big storm hits, the whole riverbed moves," ...Researchers investigate 'whole farm' approach to reduce dairy pollution
...ble, so what isn't sequestered is at risk of being washed off into streams and rivers by heavy rains.Once it reaches lakes and reservoirs, phosphorus itself never reaches toxic levels. At elevated levels, however, it can result in rapid algae growth. Runaway algae growth can result in fish kills through oxy......ssistant Michael Faries and several students first washed the 250 bushels harvested from a South Texas field, sorted for conformity, tasted for flavor and finally sliced off a chunk to analyze for sugar and phytochemical content. From that, some 80 bushels will planted by mid-April in selectively arranged c...Toxic flame retardant accumulates in dolphins
...rial from laboratory rats and a recently dead seal washed up on a beach on Texel, the island off the Dutch coast where Royal NIOZ is located, to investigate the reason for these differences in bioaccumulation between the different HBCD isomers. The beta and gamma isomers of HBCD are metabolised by the anim...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...icant reduction in bacteria in comparison to hands washed with a phage-free solution. "In this study we demonstrate that the exclusively lytic phage K has particular applications in the prevention and/or treatment of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant staphylococci," say the researchers. "In th...Scientists infuse rat spinal cords with brain-derived human stem cells
...irus. Once the cells were infected, the scientists washed the virus away, leaving self-sustaining colonies of GDNF-producing progenitor cells. The next problem was actually getting the cells into the right location of the ALS rat spinal cord. "Nobody had shown that human progenitors could be delivered rig...How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health
...ricultural chemicals. POPs from polluted soils are washed off the land into the sea. Additionally, the atmosphere plays an important role in their transport over long distances. POPs have a strong tendency to bioaccumulate in marine and terrestrial food webs. Humans, being at the top of the food web, partic...Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists
...rather than the wet season to avoid sediment being washed into the sea."...Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium
... amount of phosphorus in the watershed that hasn't washed into the lake yet," says Carpenter, meaning the problem is likely to persist for centuries. The new study models phosphorus loading into Lake Mendota, an urban lake in Madison, Wis., that still has nearly 80 percent of its watershed in the rich, dark...Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows
...ffect, Dr Blais says: "These contaminants had been washed into the ocean, where we generally assumed they were no longer affecting terrestrial ecosystems. Our study shows that sea birds, which feed in the ocean but then come back to land, are returning not only with food for their young but with contaminant...Plankton can run, but can't hide from basking sharks
...e a "electronic messages in bottles", before being washed up on beaches and found by the public. Sims found that while the sharks in deep waters exhibited normal diving behaviour, tracking the zooplankton Calanus up to the surface at dusk and then downward at dawn, sharks in the western English Channel did ...The relationship between lawns and allergies and asthma
...munities. Then they counted allergenic mold spores washed from the plant materials. Sunny Bermudagrass locations had the highest total mold spore counts, Williams said, and both sunny and shady Bermudagrass samples contained more spores than did the St. Augustine samples. The results also showed a large di......an floor. When the samples arrive on deck they are washed and classified on board in large groups or rows: sponges, corals, polyquets, molluscs, echinoderms, fish, etc. and are photographed so that their colour when alive and external anatomy can be clearly appreciated. Finally, they are inserted in alcohol...Researcher: Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem
...in urban runoff before, rather than after, it gets washed into waterways. There are several good strategies, he said. Increasingly affordable "permeable pavements" allow runoff to be stored, evaporate or percolate through pavement and into the ground, where soil and microorganisms can help filter the contam......rs Market). Ninety percent of the women observed washed their hands, compared to 75 percent of men. By co...hands after using the facilities (84% of the women washed their hands; 37% of the guys didn't). New York Travelers: Guys Have a Ways to Go The greatest gen...