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Some prehistoric flint stone artifacts from the City of Verona have taken strange blue hues

Did Synthetic Rubbers Give Prehistoric Artifacts The Blues?

Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay April 18, 2011

A scientific mystery regarding prehistoric flint tools that have taken on a peculiar blue hue is sparking a controversy in Italy. As Associate Editor Carmen Drahl reported in Chemical & […]

This albatross could use some help from plastic-digesting bacteria to save its nest from marine debris

Ocean Microbes Chomp on Plastics

Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay April 5, 2011 2

Looks like there are bacteria out in the ocean that consider plastic bags to be fine dining. Science writer Gwyneth Dickey Zaikab reports in a recent Nature article that scientists […]

The Spring 2011 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition is going on in Anaheim, CA

American Chemical Society Meeting Offers Polymers Galore

Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay March 28, 2011 1

The 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition started yesterday in Anaheim, CA, and will continue through Thursday, March 31. The American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the world’s largest scientific organizations with […]