Both groups struggled with the same problem. How to extract and purify a chemical that is part of a complex mixture? For researchers led by Dr. Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto in...
There are two myths that are a constant irritation in the fight against pseudoscience. One is the equating of the term 鈥渃hemical鈥� with 鈥渢oxin,鈥� the other is the suggestion that 鈥渘atural鈥� substances...
Amidst the cacophony of jingoist, vacuous blather at the Republican Convention there were some noteworthy phrases that probably slipped by most viewers. A number of speakers talked about the need...
Everything in the world, except perhaps a vampire, has a mirror image. But mirror images are curious things. Imagine that you place a ping-pong ball in front of a mirror. If you could somehow pick...
A recent New York Times article featured the headline 鈥淗ow Chemicals Affect Us.鈥� Even before reading a single word, I was pretty sure the columnist was not going to discuss how antibiotics cure...
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...
RSS