There are more red roses sold on Valentine鈥檚 Day than on any other day of the year. They hold a special place among flowers, particularly because of their associations with romance. In Greek...
Everybody celebrates Valentine鈥檚 Day differently. Whether you plan to pick up a bouquet of roses or wear purple in protest of the gushy holiday, there鈥檚 no wrong way to spend February 14th....
Harvard University鈥檚 Warren Anatomical Museum is a must-visit for anyone interested in the history of medicine. Displays include an ether inhaler as used by dentist William Morton that allowed...
Our collective vision of Christmas landscapes is so immersed in snow that the very phrase 鈥淚t鈥檚 beginning to look a lot like Christmas鈥� conjures up imagery that is nearly all frosted, sparkling and...
That鈥檚 the question I ask when I see a claim purporting that some supplement prevents or cures disease, or a cream that is said to reverse skin aging, or an environmental contaminant that...
It all started in Bavaria, southern Germany, 1895. Dr. Roentgen, a physicist, noticed a spooky greenish ray seeping through the completely sealed test tube and projected onto the screen wall. What...
A magnitude 9.1 earthquake occurred just off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11th, 2011, at 14:46 local time. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, like all nuclear power plants in Japan...
Say acetone, and what comes to a chemist鈥檚 mind? Washing laboratory glassware is a good bet. Actually, the prime use of acetone is to produce polymethyl methacrylate, better known as Plexiglas....
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