Polycyclic Aromatic News Today

Picture this disaster scenario in the making: At an industrial plant, a pipe cracks, spraying a cloud of tiny droplets into the air. Workers, however, are in luck. Within minutes, a laser-based device the size of a small suitcase spots the cloud and tells safety crews what’s in it so they know how t

Picture this disaster scenario in the making: At an industrial plant, a pipe cracks, spraying a cloud of tiny droplets into the air. Workers, however, are in luck. Within minutes, a laser-based de ...

Engineers at CU Boulder are developing an “all-seeing eye” based on laser technology that could one day detect harmful particles in the air around cities or in factories.

The management plan for a coastal Oregon estuary is getting its first update in four decades. The public can comment on the draft of the Yaquina Bay Estuary Management Plan released this week. Lisa Phipps, Oregon Coastal Program manager with the Ocean/Coastal Services Division of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, said the bay is a natural extension of the community. ...

Georgias nearly 370,000 acres of salt marshes are in danger, due to rising sea levels and levels of development that conservation groups say are unsustainable. But an effort is underway across the southeast to try to save them. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative has released a new plan to preserve one million acres of salt marshes from North Carolina to East Central Florida, an area nearly the size of the Grand Canyon. ...

Sealing driveways and parking lots may seem like routine maintenance for homeowners, but recent studies raise concerns about the potential health risks associated with some of the materials. Coal-tar sealants have been used for decades on driveways and parking lots. They include a class of compounds known as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. ...

Nearly a year after the historic flooding in eastern Kentucky residents of Breathitt, Knott, Letcher, and Perry counties now have the option to participate in buyouts for homes and properties located on flood-prone land. Officials say they estimate around 3000 residents in the region are eligible. Tony Nott - assistant state conservationist with the U.S. ...

The compound Salen effectively binds to a number of SARS_CoV_2, the virus that causes COVID-19, proteins. The findings pave the way to developing new therapeutics to fight coronavirus.

In der Sondermüll-Verbrennungsanlage des Chempark-Betreibers Currenta in Leverkusen ist es am Dienstag, 27. Juli, zu einer Explosion mit starker Rauchentwicklung gekommen. Es gibt mindestens sechs Tote, 31 Menschen wurden verletzt.

Von dpa Teilen Nach der Explosion in Leverkusen geht die Suche nach zwei Vermissten weiter. Foto: David Young/dpa © David Young Köln/Leverkusen (dpa) - Sechs Tage nach der Explosion und dem Brand in einer Leverkusener Sondermüllverbrennungsanlage gelten weiter zwei Menschen als vermisst. «Es wurden keine weiteren Menschen geborgen», sagte eine Sprecherin der Kölner Staatsanwaltschaft am Montag auf Anfrage der dpa. Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen unbekannt wegen des Verdachts auf...