Washing lettuce might not remove all the germs
One of the first steps of any recipe is to wash your produce. In today’s global food system, fruits and vegetables make a lot of stops…
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Two biologists showed that butterflies and moths generate enough electrostatic charge to attract pollen grains from…
One of the first steps of any recipe is to wash your produce. In today’s global food system, fruits and vegetables make a lot of stops…
If you live in a developed country and eat seafood, there’s a very good chance that the fish on your plate was caught by a commercial…
Caroline, our resident HIV expert, updates us on some new knowledge about what happens when HIV positive patients stop and restart their…
Many marine organisms have a planktonic form. This means that they drift in the ocean for part of their life until they can find something…
Be grateful you didn't live at the same time as a T-rex, because it's superior biting strength could really mess you up. Scientists at…
Should we geoengineer larger ice caps to reflect radiation away from the Earth to cool the climate? Is this a good idea? This article…
Baryon acoustic oscillations, an artifact remaining from the Big Bang, can be used by scientists to measure cosmological distances…
Many people believe that farmed fish wouldn’t do very well in the wild, but do direct experiments comparing farm-raised to wild fish…
We’re all familiar with “heat signatures” and “infrared images” thanks to the numerous cop shows on television. You’d be…
Aging is a natural and inevitable biological process – one that happens to all living organisms on our planet. While most scientists…