Though aesthetically pleasing, gold is scientifically quite boring. It is chemically inert, meaning it doesn鈥檛 easily react with other chemicals and remains shiny for long periods which is why it...
You may want them in your jeans, but you probably want to keep them away from your genes. They鈥檙e 鈥渘ano鈥 particles of titanium dioxide, about ten billionths of a meter in diameter that can exhibit...
Nobody looks forward to cleaning toilets. And maybe in the future you won鈥檛 have to. That may be one of the benefits of nanotechnology, a burgeoning field of science that everyone is talking about....
Richard Feynman, Nobel prize winning physicist and science popularizer par excellence liked practical jokes, but I doubt he would have enjoyed watching people in the buff parade on Chicago鈥檚...