This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more… …
The caveman’s kitchen, T.rex revelations, slowing wind and more. Tim on radio this week.
This week on radio, Tim Thwaites is talking about slowing wind; love and pain; cane toad caviar; shining light inside your body; and more… …
Mopping up gases
Deanna D’Alessandro University of Sydney A sponge that filters hot air and captures carbon dioxide We need better ways of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power stations and industry. And we …
Eight for apples, 46 for muffins
What does food do – time to move beyond the glycaemic index It’s time to get smarter about food labelling according to Dr John Monro, speaking at the international chemistry conference in Melbourne …
Spinning the world clean
Prof Colin Raston and his colleagues in the Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication at the University of Western Australia are setting about cleaning up the world—and chemical industry in …
Vegetable oil to lubricate your car, tractor and truck
IUPAC Symposium 6B - Crop Biofactories: Plants as Sustainable Bio-Production Systems for Industrial Raw Materials, Wednesday 3:30pm Sten Stymne, Swedish University of Agricultural …
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Could your lawn, golf course or pasture make its own weedkiller?
IUPAC Symposium 4A - Natural Products, Tuesday 1:45PM - 3:00PM Leslie Weston, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Leslie Weston has discovered and patented two weedkillers made by plants. Now …
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New perfumes for bugs
IUPAC Symposium 4B - Natural Products, Tuesday 4pm John Pickett, Rothamsted Research John Pickett and his British colleagues are creating new kinds of perfumes or attractants for pest …
Use your spray smarter: save money and the environment
IUPAC Symposium 4B - Formulation, Efficacy and the Environment Monday 4:30pm Heping Zhu, United States Department of Agriculture “Current label-recommended levels of pesticides for spray …
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Fighting termites – with a natural chemical from an Aussie tree
David Leach, Southern Cross University A wood extract has been registered as the first natural termiticide in Australia by the Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Administration. David …
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A new chick magnet – if you’re a moth
IUPAC Symposium 3A - Chemical Ecology and Crop Protection, Thursday 9:30am Peter Gregg, Cotton CRC A plant perfume that attracts female moths—a world-first attractant invented by the Cotton …
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Tracking malaria resistant mosquitos: a new tool
IUPAC Symposium 1A - Resistance Management: Insect Disease Vectors & Agricultural Pests Tuesday 2:30pm Hilary Ranson, The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Pyrethroid insecticides are …
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