June 29, 2015

Poison ivy's chemical curse

by Uma Nagendra, Athens Science Café Ah, summer in the American South: the air is abuzz with cicadas, air conditioning, and aerosol bugspray. For many, it's a season equally beloved and reviled. Everyone seems to have their favorite griping point:  the relentless humidity, the constant threat of mosquitoes, or my personal nemesis—poison ivy. Although poison

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