There are bugs in your cup of tea. Not whole bugs (hopefully not). But the essence of a hundred species of insects can be found in that tea bag you buy from the store. Even if you have been sipping...
Looking through a microscope will make something tiny look big. It blows the teeny-weeny out of proportion. As it turns out, you don鈥檛 even need a microscope to do that.
When you consider how babies are made, you bump up against a basic math problem. No need for calculus here, or even the mental gymnastics of carrying the one. It鈥檚 a problem of doubling.
A central lesson we scientists learn in university is that science is complicated. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. Individual studies are flawed, and our...
