Halloween is a time when witches fly, black cats prowl and zombies rise from the grave.聽 But it is also a time for magic.聽 No, not supernatural charms, spells or incantations but the time honoured...
"That's the way the cookie crumbles!"聽 How often have you heard that expression?聽 It is usually a statement of disappointment which may be paraphrased as "tough luck."聽 But why does a cookie...
For over 100 years the Nobel Foundation has recognized outstanding individuals for contributions to their respective fields. The rules, however, stipulate that prizes cannot be awarded posthumously...
Mention 鈥淪ilent Spring鈥� and thoughts immediately turn to Rachel Carson鈥檚 epic in which she alerted readers to the risks of pesticides. But long before, way back in the 1940s, Australian sheep...
You鈥檝e likely heard phrases like 鈥榙on鈥檛 be a lemming鈥�, or your run of the mill internet troll scream-typing about how we鈥檙e all following our governments 鈥榣ike lemmings, over the cliff to our doom!...
Today, when we say someone is hysterical, we mean that they are frenzied, frantic, or out of control. Until 1980, however, hysteria was a formally studied psychological disorder that could be found...
Humans might not have hair as thick as chimpanzees covering their body, but our arm, leg and eyebrow hair all serves as reminders of our primate ancestry. So why don鈥檛 Homo sapiens have whiskers...
Reviving聽the dead using stem cells and electrical impulses sounds more like a plot for a Hollywood sci-fi movie than a process grounded in reality.聽And yet, that is exactly what a Philadelphia bio...
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