The experiment, James Simpson decided, would go ahead even though the rabbits had died. And that decision was destined to have such a huge impact on medicine that more than 100,000 grateful Scots...
How do we know what we know when it comes to science? There's no simple answer here, because we rely on a combination of experience, plausibility based on established principles, and of course peer...
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’t some experiment by...
I was asked by a salesman for the "Magnesphere" Company to take a look at their magnetic system that is supposed to treat various conditions. The people who hosted me made no claims other than that...
So what is an emu? A bird. It can grow to about six feet and is native to Australia. It is a strange looking bird, but not as strange as some of the health claims being made for its oil. Dozens of...