On the fictional cop show Blue Bloods, in the appropriately titled episode 鈥淧ain Killers,鈥� detective Maria Baez picks up a tray containing drug paraphernalia and a white powder and is soon seen on...
Divide some laboratory rabbits into three groups. Feed one group normal rabbit chow, the second group a high cholesterol diet, and the third group a high cholesterol diet supplemented with 0.2%...
The word 鈥渜uantum鈥� derives from the Latin word for 鈥渁mount,鈥� so that if something is 鈥渜uantifiable,鈥� it means that it can be measured. Although I think I have a reasonably good grasp of chemistry,...
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...
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