Why would anyone oppose a technology that dramatically increases crop yields and protects farmers from excessive exposure to pesticides? Because of irrational fears about the technology involved,...
Since the late 1940s, so-called 鈥渟ubtherapeutic鈥� doses of antibiotics have been routinely added to animal feed to prevent disease and to increase feed efficiency.聽 Exactly why animals put on weight...
I have never really been hungry. Sure, I鈥檝e had occasions when I could hardly wait to wolf down a slice of pizza or a serving of veggie goulash and I鈥檒l admit to looking forward eagerly to the end...
There are many environmental groups that raise legitimate and thoughtful questions about chemical issue. The Environmental Working Group is not one of them. This organization is dedicated to...
In a paper published in this week鈥檚 issue of Science, astronomers from the Max Planck institute, the University of Cologne (Germany) and Cornell University (USA), announced to聽have for the first...
If you watched the news, read newspapers or surfed the web recently you will have been inundated with pictures of bacon and headlines describing it as carcinogenic. That鈥檚 because the International...
Researchers were surprised to see that snails reared in some plastic water bottles produced almost twice as many offspring as their brethren raised in glass bottles. This wasn鈥檛 some experiment by...
During the first years of the twentieth century the demand for shellac outstripped the supply. People did not develop a sudden penchant for shiny furniture, but electricity was starting to take the...
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