So what exactly is this 鈥渕eat glue?鈥� Rest assured that no horses were condemned to the glue factory to produce it. What we鈥檙e talking about is an enzyme called transglutaminase that allows a...
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....
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. The ultimate natural recycling process. Bury a body and after a while only the skeleton remains. What has happened to the rest? Well, the flesh served as a feast for a...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥� But here is one. Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer! There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it....
Believe it or not, shrimp and lobster have something in common with carrots. They have a good dose of carotenoids in their body. Carotenoids are yellow-orange compounds that are quite widespread in...
Buying toys used to be easy. You went into a toy store, looked around and found something you liked. What mattered was whether the rubber ducky had an appealing look and feel or whether the doll...
The path upon which food travels, beginning with ingestion and ending with excretion, is complex and highly organized. While the body is controlled by the central and autonomic nervous systems, the...
And just when I was getting used to being single in the summer. July 6th rolls around; International Kissing Day. It鈥檚 like a second Valentine鈥檚 Day but less sweet. I mean really, no chocolate? But...
The ancient Greeks did not have a good grasp of genetics.聽A giraffe, they thought, was a cross between a camel and a leopard, and an ostrich was the result when a camel mated with a sparrow.聽A...
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