One piece of agglomerated and incinerated plastic looks like a stack of toasted nori. Some of the burnt plastic bits look like fragments of wood or stones. The WHOI scientists have jars of white, orange, and gray nurdles sorted for study—they want to know how the degree of burning affects their chemistry and toxicity.
by Katherine Bourzac | January 22, 2023
The banana peel–based cookies were also well received by our tasting panel of four school-age children, who said the treats had notes of coffee, oats, and toast that the 100% wheat flour cookies lacked—and there was not even a hint of banana flavor. Meaty mealworms If you think it’d be hard to talk people into eating banana peels, try mealworms.
by Craig Bettenhausen | September 25, 2022
The e-cigarette products in question include flavors such as cinnamon-toast cereal and apple crumble. “Assessing the impact of potential or actual youth use is a critical factor in our decision-making about which products may be marketed,” FDA acting commissioner Janet Woodcock says in a statement.
by Britt E. Erickson | September 02, 2021
“You have been criticized for downplaying the contributions of the female Nobel laureates I just mentioned, for toasting a racist, misogynistic antisemite [James Watson], and for attending lunch meetings with the late, disgraced Jeffrey Epstein,” Duckworth said. Lander clearly anticipated that line of questioning. He admitted error for toasting Watson, said any downplaying of Doudna and Charpentier’s roles in developing CRISPR technology was inadvertent, and emphasized that his connection to Epstein was passing. He also touted his strong support of women in science. Lander said he would work to increase the number of women and other underrepresented groups in STEM careers by 50% and promised to appoint a diverse slate of people to the OSTP and PCAST.
by Melba Newsome, special to C&EN | May 05, 2021
On another occasion, Chelsea was in Veglia’s office, and they were toasting her acceptance into medical school. “He reached out and he put his hand on the back of my neck, and he said, ‘Come on’ a couple of times. His vocal intonation and his facial expression and his body language all indicated to me that he was making a sexual advance,” she says.
by Andrea Widener, Linda Wang | March 15, 2021
Yeah, that boat is toast. Kerri: And here’s John again, in our interview. John Haldon: That’s the second boat, we sank the first one pretty quickly. Because it’s sticky, it burned and burned and burned. It didn’t go out. It’s an incredibly scary and effective weapon. Kerri: So, John says he’s satisfied that the mystery of Greek fire has been solved.
by Gina Vitale | January 22, 2021
Bettenhausen business instrumentation Bruker engineer Joerg Tischler (left) and University of Florence professor Lucia Banci toast the yet-to-be-turned-on machine. BusinessWire A photo of the new Bruker NMR instrument installed at CERM in Italy. NMR Bruker Bruker installs world's first 1.2 GHz NMR Chemical & Engineering News Bruker installs world's first 1.2 GHz NMR Bruker installs world's first 1.2 GHz NMR
by Craig A. Bettenhausen | May 15, 2020
Despite how odd the circumstances were, the defenses still felt like a major and special accomplishment, complete with our audiences joining us for a remote champagne pop and toast. The closure of all nonessential research was announced during Lindsay’s defense, effectively closing the building. It was a fitting cap to a week that felt completely surreal and still remarkably heartwarming.
by Linda Wang | April 06, 2020