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- 1From:SuperScience (Vol. 30, Issue 5)Take a look around the room. Everything you see is made up of matter. Different types of matter have different properties, or characteristics. Matter can be hard or soft, heavy or light. It can even be invisible, like...
- 2From:Townsend Letter (Issue 415-416)Vitamin C and Pregnancy What is a safe amount of vitamin C during pregnancy? In her keynote speech for 2017 LiveAware Expo (San Francisco, California), Suzanne Humphries, MD, discussed the medical literature that she...
- 3From:Townsend Letter (Issue 406)An Interdisciplinary Approach at the Paracelsus Clinic Each biological and, therefore, human system is susceptible to metals and heavy metals. They occur in various forms and accumulate in the human body. Metals and...
- 4From:Science News (Vol. 190, Issue 8)Scientists are getting closer to turning hydrogen into a solid metal, Emily Conover reported in "Chasing a devious metal" (SN: 8/20/16, p. 18). "If, as some scientists think, [metallic hydrogen] formed under intense...
- 5From:Science News (Vol. 190, Issue 4)In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world's most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated lasers. Other labs squeeze heavy-duty diamonds together hard enough to...
- 6From:Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences (Vol. 49, Issue 1)Byline: Zafar Khan and Saqiba Bibi Abstract Four lignite coal samples from Thar coal fields Pakistan were selected for the trace elemental analyses studies. The data was obtained with the use of X-ray Fluorescence...
- 7From:Smithsonian (Vol. 44, Issue 6)If you've shopped for a smartphone lately, you're aware of the staggering number of options, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of apps available once you've got it in your hands. But next summer you'll have a new...
- 8From:The Economist (Vol. 406, Issue 8823)Exotic but useful metals such as tantalum and titanium are about to become cheap and plentiful ALUMINIUM was once more costly than gold. Napoleon III, emperor of France, reserved cutlery made from it for his most...
- 9From:Science News (Vol. 172, Issue 5)As well as tailpipe emissions, cars and other vehicles throw off metal pollutants from wear on various parts. Despite European regulations requiring cleaner materials in vehicles, a study in Stockholm shows that tires...
- 10From:Science News (Vol. 189, Issue 3)A crushing squeeze between diamonds has pushed hydrogen to the brink of morphing into a metal. Scientists in Scotland and China discovered a new solid phase of hydrogen after subjecting the universe's most abundant...
- 11From:Science News (Vol. 178, Issue 11)Black holes can help physicists understand strange metals. These compounds have unusual electrical resistance properties and can act as superconductors at very low temperatures. Theoretical methods have trouble...
- 12From:Astronomy (Vol. 39, Issue 4)New research in the December 10 journal Science suggests much of our access to certain heavy elements, including the perennial favorite gold, is thanks to a series of relatively large impacts early in Earth's history....
- 13From:USA Today (Vol. 144, Issue 2845)With nearly 2,000,000 U.S. couples experiencing health issues related to reproduction, in vitro fertilization and similar assisted reproductive technologies have become a common practice to increase the chances of...
- 14From:Science World/Current Science (Vol. 70, Issue 4)Which element protects astronauts, fixes broken teeth, and could help doctors fight cancer? Use these five clues and the periodic table that's on page 22 to find out. 1 COMPUTER CONDUCTOR Because electricity flows...
- 15From:Men's Health (Vol. 24, Issue 3)Byline: Masters, Maria The downside of wine Your vino may contain more than just antioxidants. When British researchers tested various red and white wines from 15 nations, they found that 12 countries (including...
- 16From:Popular Science (Vol. 278, Issue 6)IN DECEMBER 2006, William Tahil, an energy analyst, published a paper online titled "The Trouble with Lithium." His argument would be alarming to the many people who had placed their hopes for a cleaner, more prosperous...
- 17From:The Economist (Vol. 406, Issue 8827)Tin-hat time The other winners in the commodities boom EVEN keen observers of the commodities boom rarely look beyond crude oil, iron ore, coal and copper. Demand for the "big four" soared over the past decade as...
- 18From:Popular Mechanics (Vol. 187, Issue 2)Valuable raw materials needed to manufacture high-tech products are often available in only a few locations. Any political or economic changes in these resource capitals are quickly felt worldwide. Amarillo, Texas...