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Harvesting Toxins

If you talk to employees at one of the US Governments nuclear facilities long enough, you’re likely to hear a lot of...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 24 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Story of Vaseline

Robert Peary took it to the North Pole. There’s a song in its honor. It makes smiles sparkle. It’s used to coat the f...

Written by Jason Bellows • 20 Feb 2006 • Read →

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The Doctors’ Mob Riot

A young boy peered into the dissection room at New York Hospital in post-colonial Manhattan only to see medical stude...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 18 Feb 2006 • Read →

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The Not-So-Legendary Chimera

Imagine if a man discovered one day that two of his three children were not genetically related to him. Recrimination...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 15 Feb 2006 • Read →

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It’s a Plane! It’s a Tank! It’s Both!

Sergei Anokin must have been one of the bravest men in the Soviet army of World War 2. He is the only pilot to ever f...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 10 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Parasites on the Brain

Toxoplasma gondii may be the most prevalent human parasite. As many as 50% of humans worldwide, and up to 80% in urba...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 08 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Free-Fall from Near Space

You have probably heard about - or done - some form of extreme free-fall, be it sky diving, bungee jumping, or base j...

Written by Daniel Lew • 05 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Great Advances in Smoking Safety

Smoking tobacco has been around practically forever, but cigarettes as a commercial product are actually a fairly rec...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 03 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Head of the Class

We seem to be getting swelled heads. Or at least bigger ones. A study published in the British Dental Journal ran...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 01 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Skipping Bombs Like Stones

During World War II, German hydroelectric dams were lucrative targets for the Allies. Not only would busting one cut...

Written by Daniel Lew • 23 Jan 2006 • Read →

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