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...
The history of science is full of disproved experiments, revised textbooks, and rewritten hypotheses. Even Nobel prize-winning research, which is often viewed as the best work science has to offer,...
What if I told you that every morning you needed to bounce up and down on a trampoline simply to activate your brain? That, somehow, your brain had evolved to be sluggish and unresponsive until you...
Imagine not being able to eat a meal with family or friends. That is the case for people who have a condition known as short bowel syndrome (SBS). When large segments of the intestines are missing,...
In 2016, numerous headlines fed the flames of blue light panic. A Telegraph article by the publication鈥檚 science editor claimed that taking selfies is aging our skin and that doctors can even tell...
There are roughly 20,000 prescription medicines approved for use around the world and in developed countries two thirds of the population takes one or more of them. Then there are all the non...
I had the opportunity to watch a live donor kidney transplant 鈥� live! From the first incision in the donor to the last suture in the recipient, I was standing there, granted the privilege to...
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