Mussels make superglue?

Nature is so amazing. I heard about this topic on the radio last week and was curious to learn more about it. Even with all the technological

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Support Bangladesh Arsenic Education Project on IndieGoGo

Dear friends of Chemists Without Borders, I am pleased to announce the kickoff of our campaign on IndieGoGo aimed at educating high school students

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Functional Stupidity in Academia Blocks Meaningful Efforts to Pursue Sustainability

by Josh Kearns *     *     * Hi – Your erstwhile correspondent Josh Kearns here! As a Chemist Without Borders doing work of

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Cell phones really are becoming the all-in-one device

George M. Whitesides of Harvard University and coworkers have invented uMed, an electrochemical detector that uses the voice channel of a cell phone

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“Smart lens” technology

     I have a pretty strong corrective lens prescription.  I have astigmatism in my left eye which is not corrected very

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REMINDER – IdeaConnection Projects Q&A call: 9am PST August 7, 2014

IdeaConnection Projects Q&A call: 9am PST August 7, 2014 Chemists Without Borders – IdeaConnection Projects Conference Call Agenda Dates:

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Business, Bees, and Nicotine

Since 1945, the use of pesticides has risen 3,300 percent, however crop loss due to pests has not decreased. Despite the fact that USA

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IdeaConnection Projects Q&A call: 6pm PST July 17, 2014

Chemists Without Borders – IdeaConnection Projects Conference Call Agenda Dates: July 17 6pm PST and ALSO on Aug 7th 2014 9am PST Project

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Can biomass char remove toxic synthetic chemicals from drinking water?

Earlier this morning, Aqueous Solutions launched a science crowd-funding campaign through experiment.com! We’re raising money to purchase

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Winter is coming, or is it always cold in Russia?

Fire at the regional trade union council building in Odessa, Ukraine Photo: Barcroft Media In the midst of the Ukrainian crisis, tactics reminiscent

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Just So You Know

We are speaking at the 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition on August 10-14, 2014 in San Francisco, CA USA.  Chemists Without Borders

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Electricity from body heat

It amazes me how smart some people are.  At 15 I was just trying to learn to drive a car; Ann Makosinski from British Columbia invented a

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