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RodCon marks 10 years at the University of Northern Iowa

The Gazette Cedar Rapids 30 Mar 2025
(Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier). The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread ... Other attractions include costume contests, a demonstration by the American Chemical Society, vendors and other storytelling and gaming throughout the day ... .
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Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics

Futurism 30 Mar 2025
The findings, which will be presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society this week, are yet another example of widespread microplastic pollution, which is so pervasive it's invaded the human brain ... There are no human trials ... ....
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Chewing Gum Can Shed Microplastics Into Saliva: American Chemical Society

The Epoch Times 29 Mar 2025
Researchers of the study “wanted to identify how many microplastics a person could potentially ingest from chewing natural and synthetic gums,” the American Chemical Society said in a March 25 statement ... ....
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Don’t Think Too Hard About Gum

The Atlantic 29 Mar 2025
In a study presented at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society (which has not yet been peer-reviewed), a graduate student’s saliva contained elevated microplastic levels after she chewed ...
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Chewing gum: another way for microplastics to enter your body?

The Conversation 28 Mar 2025
Anastassiya Bezhekeneva/Shutterstock ... chewing gum ... In the chewing gum study – which was presented at the American Chemical Society meeting 25 March – a single volunteer chewed ten brands of chewing gum – five natural and five synthetic ... Size matters ... .
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New Mexico set to become third state to implement full PFAS product ban

The Hill 27 Mar 2025
New Mexico is poised to become the third state to institute a full-fledged ban on products that contain toxic "forever chemicals," as two key bills head to the governor's desk ... The chemicals in ...
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RodCon celebrates 10 years at the University of Northern Iowa on April 5

The Courier - Waterloo 27 Mar 2025
Attractions include costume contests, a demonstration by the American Chemical Society, vendors and other storytelling and gaming throughout the day ... .
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Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastics into body, study finds

Fox31 Denver 27 Mar 2025
... at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Sanjay Mohanty, an engineering professor at UCLA, shared the findings at the American Chemical Society's 2025 Meeting and Expo in San Diego this week.
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The Secret To A Broad-Spectrum Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Going Sugar-Free

IFL Science 27 Mar 2025
Progress has been reported at the American Chemical Society conference, while the team involved has also published two papers on how a related approach can improve the effectiveness of cancer vaccines.
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Residue from human waste has long wound up as farm fertilizer. Some neighbors hate it

Chatanooga Times Free Press 27 Mar 2025
... groundwater from toxic chemicals in wastewater ... Another study published last year by the American Chemical Society found that PFAs can leak from biosolids into groundwater after a single application.
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All-Natural, Semi-Transparent, And Electrically Conductive Wood Is Now A Reality

IFL Science 27 Mar 2025
... a combination of chemicals that included sodium sulfite, sodium hydroxide, and diluted bleach ... The research was presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Diego.
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Popular Spanish beach announces new smoking ban just in time for summer | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
Described as a ‘key contributor to the plastic pollution problem’, single-use plastic cigarette filters are ‘consistently’ ranked in the top five items found on UK beaches during the Marine Conservation Society’s Great British Beach Clean.
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Safe atomic battery could power devices for decades without charging

New Atlas 27 Mar 2025
Called a dye-sensitized betavoltaic cell, this battery uses beta particles, which are just high-energy electrons. The magic in this battery is the material carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that emits beta particles ... Source. American Chemical Society. .
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