X-rays of our teeth are routinely prescribed by dentists, but you know what else follows a certain periodicity? Media coverage of the alleged danger and overuse of these dental radiographs.
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
In 1933 Calgon Incorporated of Pittsburgh introduced its flagship product, appropriately named 鈥淐algon.鈥� The name was derived from the phrase 鈥渃alcium gone,鈥� which was an accurate description of...
It may surprise you but when microRNAs were discovered, the scientific community shrugged. 鈥淪o what?鈥� it seemed to say. Here we are, in 2024, and this discovery has resulted in two of its leading...
Cheese producers were cheesed off.聽 People were just not eating enough veal.聽 Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch.聽 There was not...
Do you know who invented the electric toaster? If you answered Alan MacMasters, a young Scotsman with high cheekbones and quite a head of hair, you鈥檝e been lied to by Wikipedia.
Cheese producers were cheesed off. People were just not eating enough veal. Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch. There was not enough...
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