China to Shut Mines, Oil Wells, Plants, After Quake

In response to the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake in southwestern China on Monday, several large energy-producing companies are being forced to halt production until conditions for safe operations have...

Plastics with bisphenol A shelved

Health Canada has yet to make an official announcement about the purportedly dangerous bisphenol A, but many stores aren't taking any chances. Many believe the official announcement will come Friday during a...

Roskilde Festival Lineup Announced

Roskilde is massive, manic, music magic. It's the only multi-day, 80,000+ attendee festival that I've ever attended which is, gulp, ten years ago this summer. But with this kind of a line-up, maybe this is the...

Washing Veggies May Not Get Rid of Bacteria

Everything we eat is prone to becoming infected with harmful bacteria but, like many people, I've always felt that a good warm water washing of the fruit and veg was enough to rinse away the e.coli in my lettuce....

Four Alarm Chemical Fire, Area Evacuated, Mount Vernon, NY

Four Alarm Chemical Fire Area Evacuated, Mount Vernon, NYUpdate 6:55 am Saturday, March 30, 2008 -"Air-quality tests and checks for any hazardous material oozing from KEM Chemical Corp. found no dangerous contamination as of early Saturday, according to authorities. A fire...

Remembering Halabja

On March 16, 1988 the largest scale chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in modern times occured in a town called Halabja, which is located about 150 miles northeast of Baghdad, and between 8...

Glass baby bottles make a comeback

My mum still says how much better glass baby bottles are, and how much better cloth diapers are as well. But now she might actually be right, as it appears many people are turning back to glass due to fears over...

Saddam's cruellest killer, Chemical Ali, to be executed

Chemical Ali, one of Saddam Hussein's senior lieutenants will be put to death "in a matter of days", according to an official in Bagdad. He is considered to be the most bloodthristy and cruel of Hussein's former...

Lily Allen Pregnant With Chemical Brother's Baby

"And it makes me smi-i-ile...""Chart-topping pop singer Lily Allen is pregnant with her first child, it was confirmed today. The 22-year-old is "thrilled" to be expecting a baby with Chemical Brothers musician Ed Simons, 37. The couple have been dating since September. A...

Japan intercepts missile in milestone test

"The $55 million test was a "major milestone" in growing U.S.-Japanese cooperation, said Rear Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Lt. General Henry Obering, head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.U.S.-Japanese missile-defense ties have...

Purvin & Gertz launch five yr East-of-Suez Petrochemical outlook

"The service offers a wide array of analyses pertaining to the East-of-Suez naphtha market which can be synthesized as an outlook over the next five years, including forecasted trends, supply and demand balances of Asia and the Middle East regions and their key countries....

Access to patent data, expanded visual analysis tools key

Columbus, Ohio (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - It took 30 years for Chemical Abstracts Service to publish its first million abstracts. CAS indexed more than a million records in 2006 alone, reflecting the accelerated pace of research and discovery around the globe. ...

ID Gel Tape Approach Grabs More Than Just Fingerprint :: Symblogogy

"A Breakthrough In CSI - Ones hands can tell a lot about people and their habits. Human hands can and do get into everything … they sense touch, temperature, texture, aid in the sense of smell, and can get...

Poison threat from Ukraine train

"Several Ukrainian villages are at risk from a giant poisonous cloud that formed after a train carrying a toxic chemical caught fire and derailed. The cloud covers an area of 90sq km (56sq miles) above some 14 villages near the town of Lviv. Hundreds of villagers from the...

FDA continues study on the culprit of the recalled pet food

" • FDA continues study on the culprit of the recalled pet food Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 07:26 AM Central Standard Time BusinessIn Washington- Investigators until now are uncertain about the recall of pet foods which has been contaminated with a chemical use...

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