Published on: 2025-06-09 08:00:13
Tinfoil hats are back out amongst Louisiana legislators. Last week, lawmakers in the House passed a bill to ban “chemtrails” in the state. What are those, exactly? Oh, you know. The white lines left behind by aircraft that conspiracists insist are chemicals released by the government or other agencies for potentially nefarious purposes. People’s primary concern with chemtrails used to center around using chemicals to control people. Lately, though, conspiracists have honed in on chemtrails as p
Keywords: chemicals chemtrails coates lawmakers louisiana
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 01:28:15
Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed – without requiring them to code. By making it easier to search massive chemical datasets, the tool has already identified toxic compounds hidden in plain sight. UCR computer scientist Mingxun Wang in his laboratory. Wang created the new programming language for scientists. (Stan Lim/UCR) Mass spectrometry data is like a chemical fingerprint, showing scientists what
Keywords: chemicals data language scientists wang
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 12:00:29
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revealed that it's making some big changes to the first nationwide drinking water standard set by the Biden administration. Last year, the agency had finalized the standard, which aims to regulate the presence of "forever chemicals" called perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water across the country. There are thousands of different types of PFAS, but the rules specifically set limits for five: PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFHxS,
Keywords: agency chemicals drinking pfos water
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 12:38:57
The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals in their drinking water. The agency plans to extend a compliance deadline to limit two key chemicals, and rescind and reconsider regulations on four others. Last year, the Biden administration released a long-awaited rule setting limits on forever chemicals in municipal drinking water systems. This rule not only mandated low levels for two of the most-studied forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, b
Keywords: chemicals epa forever pfas water
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 12:30:54
is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The Trump administration plans to weaken drinking water rules meant to protect Americans from “forever chemicals” that have been linked to cancer, reproductive risks, liver damage, and other health issues. Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the nat
Keywords: agency chemicals epa forever water
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 04:29:32
In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s main arm devoted to scientific research. According to a report from NPR, scientists at the 1,500-person Office of Research and Development were told to apply to roughly 500 new scientific research positions that would be sprinkled into other areas of the agency—and to expect further cuts to their organization in the weeks to come. This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial prog
Keywords: chemicals epa iris program research
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 08:50:54
Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing number of new chemicals that have never been seen before by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic contaminants that we'd love to get rid of, but we struggle to purify them from the environment or break them down once we do. And microbes haven't had much chance to evolve the ability to break them down for us. Over the last few years, however, we've found a growing number of cases where bacteria ha
Keywords: bacteria break chemicals contaminants different
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 16:10:00
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meta has launched its standalone AI app to rival ChatGPT The Meta AI app combines its AI assistant with a social media feed. (The Verge) + It’s primarily designed around voice conversations. (Bloomberg $) + Targeted ads are sure to follow. (TechCrunch) 2 Amazon won’t display tariff-induced price rises after all Jeff Bezos quickly sought to reassure Donald Trump it wasn’t happenin
Keywords: ai app chemicals technology trump
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 16:47:18
is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new plan to address “forever chemicals” once widely used in non-stick and water-proof products that have since been linked to cancer, reproductive health issues, and liver damage. The vague details the EPA has shared so far, howe
Keywords: chemicals drinking epa pfas water
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 23:35:03
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 365,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows. While the chemicals, called phthalates, are in widespread use globally, Africa,
Keywords: chemicals exposure health heart mortality
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 17:30:02
That's pretty cold! In the latest sweeping move against government spending, the Trump administration has decided it's time for kids fend for themselves. Leaked emails from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published by the New York Times reveal an intention to cancel thousands of grants for environmental research. Among the research areas affected: hazards affecting rural kids. This includes exposure to noxious pesticides, wildfire smoke, and forever chemicals released by industrial p
Keywords: chemical chemicals epa forever time
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-22 12:48:36
Seven federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks say they are worried that thousands of biological samples—from human urine to frozen rodent organs—may be left to rot in a government laboratory in West Virginia. The workers left behind the samples, which they say include lungs, spleens, and brains collected from rats and mice, after the Trump administration laid off or placed on administrative leave about two-thirds of the staff working at facilities managed by the National Ins
Keywords: chemicals human niosh samples wired
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-05 16:10:00
Over the winter, eggs suddenly became all but impossible to buy. As a bird flu outbreak rippled through dairy and poultry farms, grocery stores struggled to keep them on shelves. The shortages and record-high prices in February raised costs dramatically for restaurants and bakeries and led some shoppers to skip the breakfast staple entirely. But a team based at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a device that could help slow future outbreaks by detecting bird flu in air samples
Keywords: chemical nuclear power reactors read
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 16:00:00
In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see the product data sheet. Both he and his husband, a chemical engineer, were shocked to see forever chemicals listed as ingredients in the protectant. “I think about your normal, everyday New Mexican who is trying to get by, make their furniture last a lit
Keywords: chemical mexico new pfas products
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-21 04:00:34
Scimplify, an Indian startup that helps pharmaceutical and agriculture companies access a range of specialty chemicals, has raised $40 million in a new funding round co-led by Accel and Bertelsmann Investments to widen its footprint in the U.S. and reach new markets. The Series B round pegs Scimplify’s valuation at about $150 million post-money, the company said. Specialty chemicals are vital for manufacturing in many industries, but access is still a problem, as manufacturers of these chemica
Keywords: chemicals customers manufacturers new scimplify
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 09:54:00
I leaned on my background as a chemical engineer to offer insights on the effectiveness of these controversial chemicals. In my experiment, I tested eight of the most commonly available chemical drain cleaners: six alkaline and two acidic. I performed dissolution tests to evaluate how well each of them could dissolve drain blockages. I had one goal: to determine which products, if any, would work effectively against the most common clogging materials. For this rundown, I headed to CNET's produc
Keywords: chemical cleaners drain ph water
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-28 13:22:25
The biological world is awash in chemical signals. Ants lead their nest mates to food with winding trails of pheromones, plants exude aerosols to warn their neighbors of herbivores, and everything you experience as “smell” is a molecule latching onto your nose. Some molecular messages find their targets; most linger unread in the environment. But sometimes, other species — chemical eavesdroppers, bystanders or visitors — can pick up and interpret the signals in their own way. If the message is p
Keywords: chemical krug molecules slugs species
Find related items on AmazonGo K’awiil is a project by nerdhub.co that curates technology news from a variety of trusted sources. We built this site because, although news aggregation is incredibly useful, many platforms are cluttered with intrusive ads and heavy JavaScript that can make mobile browsing a hassle. By hand-selecting our favorite tech news outlets, we’ve created a cleaner, more mobile-friendly experience.
Your privacy is important to us. Go K’awiil does not use analytics tools such as Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics. The only tracking occurs through affiliate links to amazon.com, which are tagged with our Amazon affiliate code, helping us earn a small commission.
We are not currently offering ad space. However, if you’re interested in advertising with us, please get in touch at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to review your submission.