A dentist named Morton claimed that he could produce surgical anesthesia with this miracle compound and that he would demonstrate it at Mass General. With the observation gallery full and the men...
Many scientists now believe Gulf War Syndrome is a type of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Unexplained symptoms reported by veterans of the first Gulf War with Iraq in 1991 have caused heated...
Is not a unit of time. Although the term 鈥測ear鈥� factors into the nomenclature, a light year actually measures extremely long distances and is used in mapping galaxies, planets, stars, and other...
In about 1956, biologists in Brazil imported a number of queen honeybees from Tanzania, intending to crossbreed them with local honey bees to produce a strain that made more honey and was better...
Astronauts need to sleep next to a ventilator fan while they鈥檙e in weightless orbit; otherwise, they might suffocate in their sleep. Reason being, is that warm air does not naturally rise when...
Scientists are now beginning to believe that people who annoy us are actually changing the way our brain works when we look at them. According to a study done that the University of Southern...
