In 1975聽police took fingerprints from six chimpanzees and two orangutans housed at zoos in England. They weren鈥檛 just looking for a unique souvenir; they were testing to see if any unsolved crimes...
If, like me, you aim to cook dinners that provide both your next day鈥檚 lunch as well as聽a freezer portion to be thawed at some future date, you may want to stop. At least with rice.
The April 1907 issue of American Medicine featured a paper by Dr. Duncan Macdougall describing his experiment whereby the beds of dying patients were placed on a sensitive balance.聽Believe it or...
Have you ever heard the saying "beer before liquor never been sicker"? Or 鈥渓iquor before beer, you鈥檙e in the clear鈥? What about 鈥済rape or grain but never the twain鈥? Well, it turns out that there...
If you have ever taken a good look at the back of a tube of toothpaste during those long two minutes of recommended brushing time, you may have noticed sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) and sodium...
Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an infection resulting from a scratch or bite of a cat (or, in rarer cases, dogs or other animals). It is not the same thing as Cat Scratch Fever, an album by Ted...
Leafcutter ants can strip as much as 17%聽of the leaf biomass from plants in their ecosystem and can clear聽entire trees in under a day. Next to ours, leafcutter ant society is the most complex...