Like most chemists, I like to cook.聽聽After all, what is cooking but the appropriate mixing of chemicals?聽聽In the lab we use flasks and beakers, but how do we equip our kitchen?聽聽Tiffany's in New...
At one time it was used as an aftershave because of its sweet smell.聽聽It was even used to decaffeinate coffee.聽聽Oh my, how times change!聽聽Today we worry about a few parts per billion of benzene in...
The link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer is widely acknowledged. But not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not everyone who gets lung cancer is a smoker. How does one contract the...
That鈥檚 an interesting question. What else could medicine be based on if not on evidence? Well, it could be based on conjecture, hearsay, wishful thinking, anecdote or just plain flim-flam. Indeed,...
Oxygen is critical for life and that also makes is susceptible to chicanery. If oxygen is so essential that the brain is permanently injured after just four minutes of deprivation, then surely more...
To the surprise of many, however, cancer cells are defective at producing the very fuel they need to grow and spread, but manage to overcome the innate 鈥渄isability鈥� and out-compete normal healthy...
In 2001, a Belgian physician experienced two episodes of bitter, metallic taste that lasted for several days and noted that both had occurred after he had eaten pine nuts. He mentioned this to a...
Shadow puppetry can be beautiful to look at, but when it鈥檚 happening inside our eyeballs, it鈥檚 an annoyance. One of the banes of getting older is the appearance of apparitions in our vision. In...
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