Believe it or not, lobsters, as well as other crustaceans such as crabs and crayfish, have teeth in their stomach! The teeth are part of a system called the 鈥済astric mill.鈥� Through rhythmic...
The Beirut explosion may be the worst ammonium nitrate disaster in history, but it is not the first such calamity. Let鈥檚 go back to the early morning of April 16, 1947 when spectators flooded to...
It is quite amazing how very small changes in an odourant鈥檚 chemical structure can radically change our perception of its scent. For example, octanol, a synthetic compound used in perfumes and...
I want you to close your eyes and imagine a protein. Anyone with aphantasia gets a free pass on this exercise, but I suspect that most people still won鈥檛 be able to do it. The word 鈥減rotein鈥� is...
The common word in French for dental fillings is 鈥減lombage鈥�, which may sound a little surprising since it roughly translates to 鈥渢o fill with lead鈥�.聽That is because if you had a cavity in France in...
In this COVID era, nighttime entertainment often comes down to watching one of the plethora of programs offered by streaming services. Let me make a recommendation. Summer is a time for ants to...
President Trump recently claimed that the U.S. is doing very well in the battle against COVID-19 because the death rate from the disease is declining. This was said in support of his agenda of ...
We have been inundated with discussions of viruses but there are other types of microbes out there as well. Fungi, algae, protozoa and of course, bacteria. The latter are not only out there, but...
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