If you are Canadian, you may have seen the letters 鈥淣PN鈥� followed by a series of numbers on the packaging of a health product you picked up at the pharmacy, things like vitamin supplements,...
The wall above that photocopier located at the University of Pennsylvania may eventually feature a plaque that reads something like 鈥渋t was here that Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman met in 1998...
There is no shortage of stories professing the existence of a Fountain of Youth somewhere in the world, always just out of reach. Bathing in its water was claimed to undo the damage of old age....
As we approach the week during which the 2023 Nobel Prizes will be announced (October 2-9, 2023), it is perhaps timely to consider the events that surrounded the first Nobel Prize awarded to a...
Serendipitous discoveries are legendary in science. Fleming鈥檚 discovery of penicillin, Perkin鈥檚 of mauve, Silver鈥檚 of post-it notes, Roentgen鈥檚 of x-rays, Fahlberg鈥檚 of saccharin, Plunkett鈥檚 of...
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