Posts Tagged ‘spc’

The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-contaminated house | Science Advances

December 22, 2024

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh8263

QT:{{”
Many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) persisted days following the smoke injection, providing a longer-term exposure pathway for humans….These rates imply that vapor pressure controls partitioning behavior and that house ventilation plays a minor role in removing smoke VOCs. However, surface cleaning activities (vacuuming, mopping, and dusting) physically removed surface reservoirs and thus reduced indoor smoke VOC concentrations more effectively than portable air cleaners and more persistently than window opening.
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Blue zone – Wikipedia

November 28, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors | Science

November 10, 2024

from podcast
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….Okay. So when you got measurements from this big group
of people, you end up
with kind of a range of water turnover and it varies by person and location. So how does this range
that you measured in this diverse group of people? How does it stack up with eight, eight ounce
glasses a day, which is like two liters of water a day, that recommendation we discussed?
Most people are not going to need to drink, eight
glasses of water a day, two liters of
water a day. If you measure how much water flows through your body, how much water comes in
and goes out every day, there’s a lot of variation, but it’s something like three to four liters a day
total. And that includes not just the water that you drink, but that includes the water that’s in the
food that you eat.
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8668

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication | Science | AAAS

September 8, 2024

https://www.science.org/content/podcast/what-makes-blueberries-blue-and-myth-buster-adam-savage-science-communication

Self-assembled, disordered structural color from fruit wax bloom. (2024). Retrieved March 9, 2024, from Science Advances website: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.Adk4219

World’s fastest supercomputers are helping to sharpen climate forecasts and design new materials | Science | A AAS

December 15, 2023

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-fastest-supercomputers-are-helping-sharpen-climate-forecasts-and-design-new

The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-contaminated house | Science Advances

November 26, 2023

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh8263

QT:{{”
These rates imply that vapor pressure controls partitioning behavior and that house ventilation plays a minor role in removing smoke VOCs. However, surface cleaning activities (vacuuming, mopping, and dusting) physically removed surface reservoirs and thus reduced indoor smoke VOC concentrations more effectively than portable air cleaners and more persistently than window opening.
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AI rivals the human nose when it comes to naming smells | Science | AAAS

October 8, 2023

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-rivals-the-human-nose-when-it-comes-to-naming-smells

Neural network predicts odors from chemical structures, speeding the search for new, better smelling consumer products

31 AUG 20232:00 PM ET
BY ELIZABETH PENNISI

Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’ | Science | AAAS

September 17, 2022

https://www.science.org/content/podcast/testing-planetary-defenses-against-asteroids-and-building-giant-water-machine

https://twitter.com/boron110/status/1570761167232016389

Thought the recent @ScienceMagazine podcast about the asteroid deflection mission dealt well with the effect of science on
sci-fiction and *vice-versa*. Wonder if this interplay happens in other scientific contexts?

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-unprecedented-asteroid-deflection-mission-more-billiards-space-scientists-say

Chewing burns more calories than you think—and may have shaped our evolution | Science | AAAS

August 28, 2022

https://www.science.org/content/article/chewing-burns-more-calories-you-think-and-may-have-shaped-our-evolution Great article! Wondered about the implications of chewing for weight loss: Perhaps humans so readily “overeat” because they don’t have to spend so much time chewing.

A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea — anemones suggest why

June 4, 2022

One wonders if this can happen with oxybenzone sunscreen on people too. Perhaps a good reason to favor TiO2 or ZnO sunscreens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01271-4