Slowing Down Grape Ripening Can Improve Berry Quality for Winemaking

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have tweaked growing conditions for Cabernet Sauvignon grapes to slow down their ripening, which increased the levels of compounds associated with wine’s characteristic...
25-Jun-2021 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Had COVID-19? One Vaccine Dose Enough; Boosters For All, Study Says

A new study in ACS Nano supports increasing evidence that people who had COVID-19 need only one vaccine dose, and that boosters could be necessary for everyone in the future.
18-Jun-2021 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Mapping Methane Sources in Paris

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have conducted mobile measurements of methane and its sources throughout Paris. Their findings suggest that the natural gas distribution network, the sewage system and furnaces of...
18-Jun-2021 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Mining Precious Rare-Earth Elements From Coal Fly Ash With A Reusable Ionic Liquid

Researchers in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology report a simple method for recovering these elements from coal fly ash using an ionic liquid.
18-Jun-2021 11:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Ozone pollution has increased in Antarctica

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have analyzed more than 25 years of Antarctic data, finding that ozone concentrations near the ground arose from both natural and human-related sources.
10-Jun-2021 11:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Urbanization drives antibiotic resistance on microplastics in Chinese river

Researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology have analyzed antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) on five types of microplastics at different locations along the Beilun River in China, finding much higher abundances in urban than rural...
10-Jun-2021 11:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Mapping intermittent methane emissions across the Permian Basin

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters have conducted an extensive airborne campaign with imaging spectrometers and identified large methane sources across the Permian Basin area.
28-May-2021 11:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

An illuminating possibility for stroke treatment: Nano-photosynthesis

What if there was a way to make photosynthesis happen in the brains of patients? Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have done just that in cells and in mice, using blue-green algae and special nanoparticles, in a proof-of-concept...
13-May-2021 11:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites