Chinese researchers turn cigarette butts into steel's guardian?

People smoke a lot of cigarettes, which leads to a lot of trash.Tom Novotny has done the math and it has been estimated 5.6 trillion butts each year end up littering the global environment. But a group of Chinese researchers has a solution: recycling. With the data they have collected they found out that cigarette butts makes a great anti-rusting inhibitor for steel.Jun Zhao and Ningsheng Zhang and their colleagues soaked cigarette butts that they found from the trash and along side the roads in distilled water for 24 hours.Then they added some of this cigarette extract to a 10 percent solution of hydrochloric acid, which would ordinarily indent and rust the steel. But the amount of anti-rust dropped by almost 95 percent when another 5 percent of the solution consisted of the butt extract.



http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59145/title/Chinese_would_turn_cigarette_butts_into_steels_guardian

Drug Companies Letting You Choose What You Want In Your Drugs?

Drug companies are going to try to sell drugs by letting you decide what you want in it. They are going to try to use netflix's method in order to save a lot more money but they will probably make more money too. With this method people will buy more of that drug to try to save more. For example if you need to take a whole bunch of pill's in this concept you would only have to take one. These companies would save up to $1 billion, if they do this then not only will they get more out of it but hopefully the people get more out of it too. In this case it is a win/win situation.



http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58428/title/From_movies_you%E2%80%99ll_love_to_drugs_you%E2%80%99ll_take

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

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Earthquake hits Haiti

Haitians took recovery efforts into their own hands Thursday as aid workers trickled into the quake-battered capital. One group of Haitians worked for 24 hours to free a man pinned under a collapsed school. An 11-year-old girl pleaded for water and screamed in pain as a group of Haitians tried to lift a piece of metal off her right leg. They chose to try to free her themselves rather than wait for help from professional rescue workers. Those scenes of Haitians banding together to free their neighbors played out across the capital. Roads leading from the port city's dock into town were crumpled about 5 feet high.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/14/haiti.earthquake/index.html