For over 100 years the Nobel Foundation has recognized outstanding individuals for contributions to their respective fields. The rules, however, stipulate that prizes cannot be awarded posthumously...
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...
You鈥檝e likely heard phrases like 鈥榙on鈥檛 be a lemming鈥�, or your run of the mill internet troll scream-typing about how we鈥檙e all following our governments 鈥榣ike lemmings, over the cliff to our doom!...
Today, when we say someone is hysterical, we mean that they are frenzied, frantic, or out of control. Until 1980, however, hysteria was a formally studied psychological disorder that could be found...
Humans might not have hair as thick as chimpanzees covering their body, but our arm, leg and eyebrow hair all serves as reminders of our primate ancestry. So why don鈥檛 Homo sapiens have whiskers...
Reviving聽the dead using stem cells and electrical impulses sounds more like a plot for a Hollywood sci-fi movie than a process grounded in reality.聽And yet, that is exactly what a Philadelphia bio...
When 7 Up was originally placed on the market (In 1929), it was named Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda-聽a much less catchy, though more descriptive name. The 鈥榣ithiated鈥� in the name came聽from...
When you spend hours proofreading and retyping essays, you get to wondering- why do聽we refer to large letters as upper case, and small as lower case? It鈥檚 actually a remnant聽of a past where...
The term 鈥渁romatherapy鈥� was first coined in 1937 by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, a French chemist, whose badly burned arm was supposedly miraculously cured by the use of lavender oil. Jean Valnet...
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