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No, it’s not another scare story about the dangers of illicit drugs, even if you don’t inhale. Researchers at Cornell U have discovered that at least one strain of common or garden grass, fescue grass to be precise, produces its own herbicide to prevent weeds growing in your lawn.
Frank Schroeder of the Boyce Thompson Institute [...]

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It has been a bit quite with new blogs items during the summer, but 15 new blogs have been added since New Blogs #7. These are the new blogs that entered Chemical blogspace in the last month:Drugs and Poisons (entry in Cb)Liberal Arts Chemistry (entry …

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It probably will not come as a surprise that scientific research funded by chocolate makers Nestlé has demonstrated a link between our love of chocolate and a specific chemical signature programmed into our metabolism. The signature reads “chocolate lover” in some people and indifference to the popular sweet in others, the researchers say.
Sunil Kochhar of [...]

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