Surgeons go green—recycling general anaesthetic

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 06:32 in Physics & Chemistry

One of the paradoxes of the medical marvel known as general anaesthesia is that in helping us to get well, those anaesthetic gases are also heating our planet. Now, a remedy may be at hand in the form of an innocuous-looking white powder developed by University of Melbourne scientists.

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