Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Saskatchewan

Your smartphone, television and computer screens may be contaminating your home with potentially toxic chemicals, suggests a new study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An international team of researchers found the chemicals -- called liquid crystal monomers -- in nearly half of dozens of samples of household dust they collected.  Liquid crystal monomers are used in a wide number of products ranging from flat […]