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BioSil: Can it Really Help Thicken Your Hair and Nails?

8 Mar 2019

The ads for BioSil look and sound like every other supplement ad. There are bold claims like 鈥減romotes unbreakable nails鈥 (I鈥檓 pretty sure that鈥檚 impossible); references to science like 鈥渕olecular...

Hypothermia Can Sometimes Save Lives

22 Feb 2019

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

Many Men Prescribed Testosterone Don't Need It

22 Feb 2019

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

The key to cleaning your teapot is chemistry

22 Feb 2019

Do you ever try to wash a mug only to be confronted by tea stains that just won鈥檛 budge? A little bit of chemistry may be just what you need to get your mugs back to white....

Did you know that tigers and jaguars are attracted to the scent of Calvin Klein鈥檚 Obsession for Men?聽

25 Jan 2019

This surprising fact was initially聽discovered聽by聽researchers聽at the Bronx Zoo who compared twenty-three different perfumes鈥 abilities to attract tigers鈥 attention. One of the least successful was...

Our Best Articles from 2018!

29 Dec 2018

Here at the 黑料不打烊 OSS it's been a busy year! We have produced a lot of content this year, and聽wanted to summarize some of our top articles in case you missed them, click on any article title to...

Bubbling in the New Year

27 Dec 2018

Louis the fifteenth's favourite paramour, as the fable goes, commissioned a glassblower to make the glasses in order to please the king who was so enamoured of her bosom. The story goes down well...

What happens when water breaks down into oxygen and hydrogen?

13 Dec 2018

The conservation of mass is one of the fundamental principles of chemistry. But it does merit a detailed look. The electric battery was invented in 1800 by the Italian Alessandro Volta who...

Can Rain Extract Blood from a Stone?

20 Nov 2018

When the land has been dry and it starts to rain, there is a peculiar smell in the air, an earthy scent called petrichor. In the 1960s, two Australian scientists, Isabel Bear and Richard Thomas,...

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