One of my favourite Seinfeld episodes is 鈥淭he Bro.鈥� On discovering that George鈥檚 father, Frank, has 鈥渕an-boobs,鈥� Kramer concocts a male version of a bra, that he calls 鈥淭he Bro.鈥� Frank, who prefers...
Bisphenol A (BPA) first hit the headlines in 2008 when Canada banned polycarbonate baby bottles because of possible leaching of the chemical from the plastic into the contents. Concern had been...
I am always cold. I鈥檝e had this problem ever since I was a child, when I鈥檇 sneak into the living room in the winter and turn up the thermostat while my parents weren鈥檛 looking. When I still worked...
Trying to milk the scientific literature for evidence of a link between dairy consumption and breast cancer can drive one crazy. Is milk protective against this dreaded disease or does it cause it?...
Mention 鈥淪ilent Spring鈥� and thoughts immediately turn to Rachel Carson鈥檚 epic in which she alerted readers to the risks of pesticides. But long before, way back in the 1940s, Australian sheep...
A breast cancer cell line known as MCF-7 is used by researchers around the world. 聽The name comes from the Michigan Cancer Foundation where the cell line was first established in 1973 after...
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 1930s, Swiss chemist Pierre Castan was researching materials for denture repair and American Sylvan Greenlee was working on novel paints. Independently, the two hit upon epoxy resins,...
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