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Confronting Nefarious Nitrosamines

9 May 2025

鈥淏oil the nipples!鈥 was the advice given in 1984 by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. to parents who were bottle feeding their infants or calming them with pacifiers. The presence of...

RECCO Reflectors Echo Safety Signals

14 Mar 2025

A goal of mine in 2025 was to tackle a new outdoor sport: backcountry skiing. With the promise of untracked snow and uncrowded runs, venturing off-piste was enticing. But with that also came the...

Harm from Noise-Cancelling Headphones? More Questions than Answers

28 Feb 2025

Are noise-cancelling headphones making it harder for teenagers and young adults to understand speech in a noisy environment?

The Dangers of Mirror Life

10 Jan 2025

One of the better-known episodes of the original Star Trek series is called 鈥淢irror, Mirror鈥 and it dramatizes a freak transporter accident which sends Kirk, Uhura, Bones, and Scotty to an...

Dental X-Rays May Be Overused But They Are Safe

6 Dec 2024

X-rays of our teeth are routinely prescribed by dentists, but you know what else follows a certain periodicity? Media coverage of the alleged danger and overuse of these dental radiographs.

Is There a Magic Bullet for Alzheimer's Disease?

25 Oct 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

The Beginnings of Chemical Synthesis

22 Oct 2024

Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...

Oh, That Bathtub Ring!

16 Oct 2024

In 1933 Calgon Incorporated of Pittsburgh introduced its flagship product, appropriately named 鈥淐algon.鈥 The name was derived from the phrase 鈥渃alcium gone,鈥 which was an accurate description of...

Tiny MicroRNAs Win Big Nobel Prize

11 Oct 2024

It may surprise you but when microRNAs were discovered, the scientific community shrugged. 鈥淪o what?鈥 it seemed to say. Here we are, in 2024, and this discovery has resulted in two of its leading...

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