by Total Lab Supplies | Apr 18, 2017 | Useful Information
We’ve all heard it: eating salty foods makes you thirstier. But what sounds like good nutritional advice turns out to be an old-wives’ tale. In a study carried out during a simulated mission to Mars, an international group of scientists has found exactly...
by Total Lab Supplies | Apr 3, 2017 | Useful Information
Limited access to clean water is a major issue for billions of people in the developing world, where water sources are often contaminated with urban, industrial and agricultural waste. Many disease-causing organisms and organic pollutants can be quickly removed from...
by Total Lab Supplies | Mar 27, 2017 | Useful Information
Polyethylene was first synthesized by the German chemist Hans von Pechmann, who prepared it by accident in 1898 while investigating diazomethane. When his colleagues Eugen Bamberger and Friedrich Tschirner characterized the white, waxy substance that he had created,...
by Total Lab Supplies | Mar 21, 2017 | Useful Information
New research from the University of Warwick generates fresh insight into how a raindrop or spilt coffee splashes. Dr James Sprittles from the Mathematics Institute has created a new theory to explain exactly what happens – in the tiny space between a drop of...
by Total Lab Supplies | Mar 14, 2017 | Useful Information
It may soon be possible to detect the universe’s first stars by looking for the blue colour they emit on explosion. The universe was dark and filled with hydrogen and helium for 100 million years following the Big Bang. Then, the first stars appeared, and...
