My first meeting with (3R,4R,5R)-1,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexan-2-one, less formally known as 鈥減sicose鈥 or 鈥渁llulose,鈥 was way back in my graduate school days. I was studying the molecular structure...
I鈥檝e judged a lot of science fairs in my life. I鈥檝e seen innumerable baking soda volcanoes, vitamin C analyses and models of the solar system. Usually, the judges鈥 task is over once the winners are...
鈥淥bservational鈥 studies are interesting but 鈥渋nterventional鈥 studies are the nuts and bolts of nutritional science. And talking about nuts, a study just published in the New England Journal of...
Imagine being admitted to a hospital with a heart attack and a doctor asking how many times a week you eat pizza. This was the actual question that was asked of 507 heart attack victims and 478...
It isn鈥檛 a pretty fruit. Its skin looks like something that should be on the back of an alligator. It sometimes is actually called the 鈥渁lligator pear.鈥 And it has been shunned by some people...