(23) results in Blog

September 1, 2014
Safety in the Chemistry Lab
After a series of tragic accidents related to the “rainbow experiment” in high school chemistry labs, the United States Chemical Safety Board (CSB) took the unprecedented step of releasing a video safety message to warn educators...

July 12, 2014
Phytoremediation: The power of plants to clean up the environment
The tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 not only caused extensive damage to the country’s infrastructure, but also poisoned the environment when it caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant to leak radiation into the surrounding area. ...

June 4, 2014
Discovery of a massive African peat bog: A new resource for understanding climate
In April, while exploring uncharted regions of western central Africa, a team of scientists came across an incredibly large yet unknown peat bog in an area called the Congo Basin. Stretching across the Democratic Republic of Congo and...