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  1. Video on social media doesn’t show genetically modified mosquitoes

    March 21, 2023

    Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in mosquitoes, notes mosquitoes only have one pair of wings while the insect in the video has two pairs.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  2. What to know about ‘forever chemicals,’ artificial turf, Phillies cancer deaths, and our story

    March 09, 2023

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame tested additional samples of the Vet’s turf, and also found the chemicals.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  3. How we were able to test artificial turf from Veterans Stadium and what the tests showed

    March 09, 2023

    Reporters purchased these turf samples from four individual sellers on eBay, and had two pieces tested at the Lancaster, Pa., laboratory of Eurofins Scientific, an international group of 900 labs in 50 countries, and two samples at a lab at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  4. Plastic containers may release forever chemicals into food

    March 09, 2023

    The University of Notre Dame has recently conducted a study to determine if products containing PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) could negatively impact human health. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  5. Going green with your self-care

    March 09, 2023

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame found PFAS, sometimes called "forever chemicals," in 52% of cosmetics. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  6. Food Is Being Contaminated by PFAS From Wrappers

    March 08, 2023

    “Not only did we measure significant concentrations of PFAS in these containers, we can estimate the PFAS that were leaching off creating a direct path of exposure,” said Graham Peaslee, professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Notre Dame and an author of the study.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  7. Field of Dread

    March 07, 2023

    “Once PFAS gets into [a person’s] blood, they circulate through all the organs,” said Graham Peaslee, a physicist at the University of Notre Dame who has spent years studying PFAS compounds.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  8. PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Are Turning Up in Menstrual Products. Here's What You Need to Know

    February 10, 2023

    “It assumes you have a lifetime of drinking water,” says Graham Peaslee, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, who is also active in PFAS research and whose lab conducts regular tests of products for the substances.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  9. Severe peanut allergy breakthrough by Indiana University and Notre Dame researchers

    February 10, 2023

    Professor Basar Bilgicer and his students have been hard at work on this project. It's one he's been invested in since 2008 and it's not a program that could've been rushed.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  10. The Power of Citizen Science

    February 02, 2023

    Choy decided to get the products tested herself. She sent samples of two brands to a lab at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana run by Graham Peaslee, PhD, a leading PFAS researcher.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  11. Experts and Advocates Testify in Support of Bill Protecting Marylanders from Dangerous PFAS in Common Pesticides

    February 02, 2023

    Two nationally renowned scientists are testifying and available for interviews before or after the hearing: Dr. Graham Peaslee, a nuclear chemist and a professor at Notre Dame who has been working on PFAS since 2014 and is now considered one of the world’s top experts.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  12. Firefighters’ union mounts legal push against ‘forever chemicals’: ‘It stops now’

    January 31, 2023

    Diane Cotter eventually sent samples of the gear to Graham Peaslee of the University of Notre Dame, who was able to test the items for PFAS content.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  13. What to know about PFAS after Thinx underwear settles class-action lawsuit

    January 30, 2023

    An article published in 2020 by Sierra magazine first brought attention to the ingredients in Thinx products. The article's author, Jessian Choy, had Thinx menstrual underwear and a similar product from another brand tested by Dr. Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research focuses on PFAS.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  14. Rapid plant evolution may make coastal regions more susceptible to flooding and sea level rise, study shows

    January 26, 2023

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and collaborators have demonstrated this in a recent publication in Science.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  15. South Bend Fire Department makes updates to procedures to reduce Cancer risks

    January 21, 2023

    The smoke firefighters are up against today is more toxic than ever, according to Graham Peaslee, a Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  16. Moving species emerges as last resort as climate warms

    January 17, 2023

    The proposal, which federal officials expect to finalize in June, reflects a “fundamental shift in the way we think of species protection and conservation,” said University of Notre Dame biologist Jason McLachlan.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  17. How do rocky planets really form?

    January 12, 2023

    Over the past five years, the story has gotten even weirder as scientists—including a team led by Andrew Howard, professor of astronomy at Caltech; Lauren Weiss, assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame; and Erik Petigura, formerly a Sagan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy at Caltech and now a professor at UCLA—have studied these exoplanets and made an unusual discovery: while there exists a wide variety of types of super-Earths, all of the super-Earths within a single planetary system tend to be similar in terms of orbital spacing, size, mass, and other key features. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  18. The moon beckons once again, and this time NASA wants to stay

    January 09, 2023

    “The time is now right to take a giant leap by using the moon to learn how to live off the land, thus enabling sustained human presence on Earth while stimulating a new sector of our economy,” Clive Neal, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, told the National Space Council in 2019. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  19. 3M to stop making hazardous ‘forever chemicals’ starting in 2025

    December 20, 2022

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame tested more than 230 commonly used cosmetics and found this to be true for 56% of foundations and eye products, 48% of lip products and 47% of mascaras.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  20. Raspberry-Shaped Nanoparticle for Precise Drug Delivery

    December 08, 2022

    Bradley Smith, who is also the director of Notre Dame’s Integrated Imaging Facility, was perplexed when Canjia Zhai and Cassandra Shaffer, two doctoral students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, found they had altered the structure of particles of silica—the primary component of sand—at 80 °C, or about the same as the temperature of a cup of coffee.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.