A pretty morbid question perhaps, but why is it that our body does not decompose while we are alive? Most of the post-mortem changes that affect our body are the result of things we already carry...
Science is hard. This is not meant to dissuade anyone from going into the sciences. It鈥檚 just a statement of fact with which all scientists would probably agree, and it鈥檚 a sort of mantra we can...
Imagine you have appendicitis. You are rushed to the hospital where a surgeon needs to operate on you to remove your appendix which is full of bacteria and ready to burst. Only, instead of a...
There is a word more and more popular in science communication circles: pre-bunking. There is so much bunk out there鈥攎isinformation, lies and unwarranted hype鈥攖hat it always feels like we are...
I remember when the idea of having your body frozen and preserved after death, a procedure called 鈥渃ryonics,鈥� was trending. Now, there is a new low-temperature preservation technique that gambles...
I often recommend people set their mental compass to search for the scientific consensus on an issue. This is great in theory but this consensus is often an intangible idea. Where do you find it...
