The history of science is full of disproved experiments, revised textbooks, and rewritten hypotheses. Even Nobel prize-winning research, which is often viewed as the best work science has to offer,...
In 1618 a farmer in England noticed that he could lead his cows to water but could not make them drink. He tasted the well water himself and realized right away that there was some wisdom to the...
There are roughly 20,000 prescription medicines approved for use around the world and in developed countries two thirds of the population takes one or more of them. Then there are all the non...
So you are worried about aspartame or a little Red #3 in your food? You know what you would have to worry about back in the early years of the 19th聽century? A little strychnine in the beer.聽聽A...
Throughout its lifetime, tuberculosis (or TB) has gone by many names. The ancient Greeks called it 鈥減hthisis鈥�. In the 1700s, it was 鈥渢he white plague鈥�. And in the 1800s, it was 鈥渃onsumption鈥� 鈥�...
What comes to mind when you think of biotechnology? Maybe it鈥檚 Dolly the cloned sheep, or GMOs, or stem cell therapy, or DNA profiling, or mRNA vaccines. Rightly so. These are indeed examples of...
Monster stories, like roller coasters, allow us to safely experience one of our most intense emotions: fear. The existence of vampires can alleviate our dread at the thought of dying, while...
Stop me if you鈥檝e heard this one before. Dr. Edward Jenner invented vaccines because of an observation he and he alone made. You see, milkmaids were renowned for their beauty. At a time when...
Have you ever heard that you should tilt your head backwards during a nosebleed? Or that you should urinate on a jellyfish sting? Or that in case of a seizure you should put a spoon into the victim...
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