Caveat emptor: 90% of tattoo inks have unlabeled or mislabeled ingredients
Findings could help inform and shape emerging US policy on regulating tattoo inks. Enlarge / New study finds that the chemicals listed on tattoo ink labels often don't match what's actually in the bottle. (credit: ohsarahrose/CC.....»»
AnkerWork M650 Review: All the Right Stuff
The AnkerWork M650 comes with all the ideal ingredients, but what does it manage to do right? Let’s take a look! Anker’s product expansion into new territories under its AnkerWork branding has yielded some rather impressive hardware, an.....»»
Acoustics researchers decompose sound accurately into its three basic components
Researchers have been looking for ways to decompose sound into its basic ingredients for more than 200 years. In the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier proposed that any signal, including sounds, can be built using a sufficient number of sine wav.....»»
The Problem With Sunscreen Isn’t Its Ingredients—It’s You
Humans need protecting from the sun more than ever, and yet this gloopy white cream is widely distrusted, misunderstood, and misused......»»
Green technology could permit total use of seaweed by cosmetics industry
An article published in the journal Phycology shows that there is room to transform 100% of the raw material from marine macroalgae (seaweed) into ingredients for cosmetics using industrially available green technology......»»
Midgut gland of scallops: A valuable source of fucosylated heparan sulfate
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), including chondroitin sulfate (CS), heparan sulfate (HS), heparin, and hyaluronan are linear and acidic polysaccharides found in the extracellular matrix of all animal tissues. GAGs are widely used as functional ingredients.....»»
Flash deal drops the price of this Lenovo laptop from $939 to $229
Lenovo frequently has some of the best around albeit with a caveat involved. Before we get to that though, you can buy a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e Gen 5 for $229, technically reduced from $939 so you save a huge $710. However, all Lenovo deals are a l.....»»
Firms withheld pesticide toxicity data from EU: study
Several major agrochemical companies did not disclose to European Union authorities studies assessing the toxic effects of pesticide ingredients on brain development, research said on Thursday......»»
Understanding the tantalizing benefits of tantalum for improved quantum processors
Whether it's baking a cake, building a house, or developing a quantum device, the quality of the end product significantly depends on its ingredients or base materials. Researchers working to improve the performance of superconducting qubits, the fou.....»»
What"s in wine? Campaigners want ingredients on the bottle
European wines are finally being forced to reveal their ingredients to customers, but only on a website—not on the bottle. Environmental campaigners are unimpressed......»»
JWST Spots Biggest Water Plume Yet Spewing from a Moon of Saturn
The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known.....»»
Uncovering the mechanism of photoexcited nucleobases: Is decay fast or suppressed?
The nucleobase molecules carrying the genetic codes are the most important ingredients for life, but they are also very vulnerable. When the ultraviolet component in the sunlight irradiates these molecules, the electrons in the molecules will be exci.....»»
Are college students with religious tattoos more religious? Yes and no
For most of U.S. history, tattoos have been associated with sailors and bikers, but not church-going people. As tattoos have become more popular, with nearly one-third of U.S. adults sporting at least one tattoo, religious-themed tattoos have also in.....»»
More than 5,000 tons of toxic chemicals released from consumer products every year inside Californian homes, workplaces
People often assume that the products they use every day are safe. Now a new study by Silent Spring Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, exposes how much people come into contact with toxic ingredients in products, used at home and a.....»»
Microsoft inks 10-year agreement with cloud gaming platform Nware
Microsoft announced it's signing another 10-year deal with a cloud gaming platform -- this time, European service Nware. Microsoft announced it's signing another 10-year deal with a cloud gaming platform -- this time, European service Nware.Read.....»»
Data Explorer processes unlabeled visual data, boosting creation of production-ready AI models
Akridata has launched Data Explorer for processing visual data, allowing data science teams to improve datasets and AI model training. Akridata has launched Data Explorer for processing visual data, allowing data science teams to improve datasets.....»»
Ultra-miniaturized non-classical light sources for quantum devices
Non-classical states of light such as single photons and entangled photons are key ingredients for chips dedicated to quantum computation, quantum sensing, quantum measurement, etc. Fabrication of a traditional chip is hard, but with billions of doll.....»»
Video: European Union"s ban on tattoo ink: breaking down the chemistry
A ban by the European Union on a number of pigments used in tattoo inks has sparked a conversation around their composition and safety......»»
"Nano inks" could passively control temperature in buildings, cars
World-first 'phase change inks' that could transform how we heat and cool buildings, homes and cars—to achieve sophisticated 'passive climate' control—have been developed, with enormous potential to help reduce energy use and global greenhouse ga.....»»
Long-term study shows water fleas adapt to sunscreen ingredients
A new study into how sunscreen affects freshwater ecosystems suggests the impact may be less alarming than first thought—and raises new questions about whether lab-based studies into environmental contaminants are accurately reflecting what happens.....»»
How coffee plantations limit birds" diets
Cast your mind back to the spring of 2020, when grocery store shelves sat bare of essential items and ingredients. For birds who live in the forests of Central America, replacement of forest land with coffee plantations essentially "clears out the sh.....»»