黑料不打烊

Subscribe to the OSS Weekly Newsletter!

A Life Without Sugar May Be Longer

20 Mar 2017

Who would have guessed that a song by the Guess Who would become a health anthem?...

The Catholic Church and Science

20 Mar 2017

Pope Francis鈥 recent statement at the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution and the Big Bang model are not contrary to Catholic beliefs created quite a stir. Afterall, for many people the...

The Golden Marketing of Golden Alcohol

20 Mar 2017

Marketing these days is often based not on what is in a product, but rather on what it doesn鈥檛 contain. Labels scream no cholesterol, no trans fats, no gluten, no BPA, no phthalates, no parabens...

What's in a Name?

20 Mar 2017

Adolf Schlieper was a German textile manufacturer who had gained some chemical experience working in the laboratory of Justus von Liebig, one of the leading chemists of the era.聽 Schlieper had...

How an Asian Bug Led to the First Synthetic Plastic

20 Mar 2017

During the first years of the twentieth century the demand for shellac outstripped the supply. People did not develop a sudden penchant for shiny furniture, but electricity was starting to take the...

Exoplanets

20 Mar 2017

I鈥檝e long been fascinated by space travel. I think I was first turned onto the idea back around 1957 with one of the first television shows I remember watching. 鈥淩ocky Jones, Space Ranger鈥 was a...

Forget licorice for prostate problems!

20 Mar 2017

A 67-year-old Chinese man sought medical help in a Taipei hospital because of progressive muscular weakness. Aside from somewhat elevated blood pressure he had been in good health. Doctors could...

The Symbol for Healing

20 Mar 2017

A snake coiled around a staff is a widely recognized symbol of healing.聽 The staff belongs to Asklepios, the mythical Greek god of medicine.聽 In ancient Greece the sick would go to be healed at...

Pages

Back to top