Here is a formula for separating fools from their money. Find a condition that doesn鈥檛 pose a serious threat to health, but causes enough concern for people to want to invest in a solution. Propose...
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....
If you buy a chemical-free product, you鈥檙e not getting a good deal. You鈥檙e buying nothing. A vacuum. What鈥檚 a vacuum? A space empty of all matter. And what is matter? Anything that has mass and...
What makes us exchange saliva, sebum, bits of food and millions of bacteria with each other?聽In other words, why do we kiss?聽This is not an innate activity.聽South Pacific islanders, for example,...
Have you ever wondered why tungsten light bulbs develop a black deposit as they age?聽This deposit is metallic tungsten, the same stuff that the filament is made of.聽A lightbulb produces heat and...
Lipsticks, (the waxy kind that come聽in the traditional tube), contain a variety of natural waxes, such as beeswax, carnauba wax, ozokerite, ceresin, or microcrystalline wax, which is聽derived from...
Onion chemistry is extremely fascinating and extremely complex! We鈥檝e been intrigued by this vegetable ever since our prehistoric ancestors gathered and cooked wild onions. By the time of the First...
Back in the 1930s a flower merchant with a greenhouse full of carnations got worried when the weather forecast called for extremely cold temperatures. So he placed a kerosene burner in the...
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