After years of injury reports and safety advisories, water beads continue to be a serious and growing health hazard for young children, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The ...

Water-absorbing beads have become increasingly hazardous to children over the past 10 years, as children who swallow the beads can experience life-threatening problems such as bowel obstruction. In ...

Traditional methods of rare earth mining are resource-intensive and pose significant environmental damage. Technology ...

ORLANDO -- A significant number of kids experienced bowel obstruction after swallowing superabsorbent polymer beads (SAP), commonly referred to as water beads, according to a systematic review. Water ...

Researchers have discovered precisely why strands of some fluids containing long molecules called polymers form beads when stretched, findings that could be used to improve industrial processes and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 42 (Oct. 20, 2009), pp. 17644-17649 (6 pages) The "beads-on-a-string" model for folding of polymers is a ...