I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...
Dr. David Franklin鈥檚 conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...
I have a longstanding fascination with Victorian arts and sciences. It was the era when Darwin published the 鈥淥rigin of the Species,鈥� Perkin synthesized dyes, Lister introduced antiseptic surgery,...
Wasabi, or 鈥淛apanese horseradish,鈥� is a plant in the same family as broccoli, cabbage, mustard, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower and regular horseradish. The common feature here is that these ...
