Every five years, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requires EPA to issue a list of priority unregulated contaminants to be monitored by certain public water systems serving between 3,300 Continue Reading
PAH Chemicals in Electronic Products Can Have Hazardous Effects
Guest Author: Tim Nelson – Fuels & Chemicals Global Marketing Manager The widespread use of electronic products has drawn increased attention to their impact on the environment, due to the Continue Reading
Unsafe Drinking Water – Learn How PFAS Can Affect Your Daily Life
Guest Author: Grace Guo, Phenomenex Technical Specialist (find her on Live Chat!) You wake up at 6 am and feel a little bit dehydrated. So you go to the kitchen, Continue Reading
Take the Earth Day Challenge with Tips for a Greener Laboratory
This Earth Day we are working towards a greener future. It can be so simple to make a difference. One way to start is by taking our Earth Day Challenge Continue Reading
How to Pop the POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) in a GC Oven
Discover how chromatography is afront-line player to monitor persistent organic pollutants. Guest Author: Badaoui Omais, Ph.D. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic organic compounds that are resistant to the natural Continue Reading
Sulfur Dioxide, Acid Rain, and How Gas Chromatography is Here To Help
Discover how gas chromatography can heal your sulfur dioxide woes. Guest Author: Tim Nelson, Global Marketing Manager, Fuels & Chemicals We can all agree that acidic rain is not “sweet” Continue Reading
Llamas Could be the Key for a Universal Flu Vaccine
Llamas, the world’s wonderfully, spitting, pack animal, might be the answer to the illness that resulted in an estimated 80,000 American deaths last winter, which was the highest number in Continue Reading
Graphitized Carbon Black and How It Will Improve Your Lab Functionality
Graphite is all around us. The mineral can be used to accessorize as diamonds, write in school as a pencil, and was even used to write the drafts of this Continue Reading
Scientists Have Cracked the Wheat Genome Sequence
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published in the international journal Science, reported a detailed description of the bread wheat genome sequence, the world’s most widely cultivated crop. This Continue Reading
Science Is Feeling Pretty in Pink! Learn About the World’s Oldest Color
Scientists have uncovered a bright pink color that existed over 1.1 billion years ago. It is over 500 million years older than the previous record holder for the oldest color. Continue Reading