A new type of nontoxic fluorescent probe could make it much easier to detect low pH in living cells. The human body is engaged in a constant tightrope walk to maintain the right pH, because when our ...

Knowing, understanding, and controlling your soil’s pH are all crucial to having a successful garden. The tool to help you with all three is a soil test kit. The best soil test kit provides you with a ...

The illustration is a summary map of the organellar pH measured with a single pH-sensitive probe, SITE-pHorin, which possesses an ultra-pH sensitivity enhanced by the quantum entanglement effect. As ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

The pH scale is used to measure the acidity of a fluid. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral, whereas a pH result below 7 is acidic and above 7 is alkaline. Urine has the widest ...

When our cells' acid-alkaline balance goes wrong, it can go wrong in a big way -- think cancer and cystic fibrosis. New fluorescent probes make it easier to detect pH and sweetened the deal by adding ...