In October 2000, while walking along the shores of the "Great Salt Lake" near Salt Lake City, two hunters made a gruesome discovery. In a plastic bag, they found a white sock, a shirt, a few bones...
We are having some major issues here in the Office for Science & Society. The issue? Ants. That鈥檚 right. Those itsy bitsy teeny weeny insects that somehow make their way through every nook,...
Everything in the world, except perhaps a vampire, has a mirror image. But mirror images are curious things. Imagine that you place a ping-pong ball in front of a mirror. If you could somehow pick...
16th century Italians looked on black cats with a wary eye. Especially if one snuggled up to a bedridden patient. The cat鈥檚 affection, they thought, signaled that death was approaching. Oscar the...
If it isn鈥檛 illegal, it must be legal. That鈥檚 why benzylpiperazine pills, under names such as Purepillz, Peaq, The Good Stuff, Frenzy and Pure Rush can be sold in Canada. And what are these pills? ...
A time-honoured medical maxim states, 鈥減rimum non nocere.鈥� That鈥檚 the way, 鈥渇irst do no harm鈥� used to be taught in medical school when Latin was still part of the curriculum. Basically it means...
Pineapple, kiwi and papaya all contain proteolytic enzymes, in other words enzymes capable of breaking down protein molecules. And gelatin, the substance that makes Jell-O gel, is a protein....
So I鈥檓 sitting here, staring at a couple of close up pictures of some person鈥檚 eye area. I see crows鈥� feet in both. Are there fewer feet in the bottom picture? Maybe. If I look with a magnifying...
The purveyors of fake wines probably never dreamed that they could be caught by a carbon atom. A special kind of carbon atom. One that in addition to the six protons in its nucleus has eight...
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