So what exactly is this 鈥渕eat glue?鈥 Rest assured that no horses were condemned to the glue factory to produce it. What we鈥檙e talking about is an enzyme called transglutaminase that allows a...
The email features pictures of plants supposedly watered either with microwaved water or with water that has been heated on a stove top. Supposedly this little research gem was carried out by a...
In the film 鈥淪herlock Holmes and the Game of Shadows,鈥 Holmes identifies the poison on a dart that had instantly paralyzed a victim by sniffing it. 鈥淐urare!鈥 he says. Curare is a very real poison...
You鈥檝e heard of a tempest in a teapot. This is a hurricane in a thimble. I鈥檓 talking about a study carried out by Canada鈥檚 Food Inspection Agency that found pesticide residues in organic produce....
I get all sorts of interesting questions. "How do you wash microwaves out of socks?" I didn't quite know what to make of this. Quickly, though, we established that the gentleman who posed the...