Through the wonders of chemistry, molecules can be rearranged to completely transform color. Erick Leite Bastos April 3, 2020 Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment option Erick Leite Bastos, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
ConstantinosZ/Shutterstock.com April 16, 2018 Chamomile tea may help control diabetes – as my research into 19th century dyes revealed Richard Blackburn, University of Leeds That pre-sleep herbal tea may be doing many people a lot of good.
Subbing new risks for the current dyes’ dangers? Evgeny Savchenko/Shutterstock.com Maret 20, 2018 Eager to dye your hair with ‘nontoxic’ graphene nanoparticles? Not so fast! Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University Less-toxic hair dye would be a great invention. But discounting the risks that come with nanoparticles could undermine other efforts to protect human health and environmental from their effects.
Bacterial colonies on a petri dish. Shutterstock Februari 23, 2017 How we can use light to fight bacteria Mark Wainwright, Liverpool John Moores University This research could provide an answer to some of the problems posed by antibiotic resistance.