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No straw, please
By Tania Hassan | Staff Writer
In recent years, concern has mounted over the increasing quantities of single-use plastic items that are becoming part of our everyday lives. One of these items is the plastic drinking straw, billions of which are given out in cafés and restaurants, or as part of takeaway meals, every year.
Is space-time smooth or pixelated?
By Amjid Abdullatif Khurwat | Staff Writer
During the mid-twentieth century, German physicist Heisenberg, came up with a hypothesis within quantum mechanics that the fabric of the universe is discontinuous, or pixelated – that is, it consists of indivisible countable values.
Heptachlor Toxicity
By Yervand Kondrahjian | Staff Writer
Heptachlor, a chlorinated dicyclopentadiene, was first registered in the United States in 1952 and was extensively used in soil and seed treatment to control insect pests that contaminated crops (corn, grains, citrus, and pineapple).
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