But a growing body of research shows that this black sludge, made from the sewage that flows from homes and factories, can contain heavy concentrations of chemicals thought to increase the risk of ...

Now, chemical engineers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada have come up with an all-in-one solution for trapping and breaking down these forever chemicals into harmless components.

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(Nature 631, 698–699; 2024) is a case in point. Unless they are highly air-sensitive, most chemicals degrade very slowly. In the past, researchers would quickly recrystallize, redistil or ...

The weather maps of the United Kingdom showed a huge cloud of sulphur dioxide (SO2) flying over the country's skies The people in Britain were, on Saturday (August 24), asked to stay inside amid a ...

The NBC10 Investigators are looking into "forever chemicals" or PFAS and how they've contaminated water in the Pennsylvania region over the decades NBC Universal, Inc. So-called “forever ...

The Australian parliament will conduct a national inquiry into the dangers of "forever chemicals." The move comes after a string of revelations about the potential dangers of the substances ...

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