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What exactly is “Green Chemistry?â€

30 Apr 2021

In 1942 nylon went to war. American paratroopers dropped from the sky with nylon parachutes and hunkered down in nylon tents. Soldiers on leave hoped to seduce European women with gifts of nylon...

Curious About Curare

25 Mar 2021

Olivia Fraser Barsby is a biology and anthropology student at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University, specializing in conservation, ecology, evolution and behaviour. ...

Henry Ford - A Stained American Icon

17 Mar 2021

Henry Ford was rich and famous. It is not hard to understand why. After all, he converted the automobile from an expensive novelty into a vehicle affordable for the middle class and in the process...

St. Anthony’s Fire, the Salem Witch Trials and the Beatles

12 Mar 2021

Gaston of Valloire’s son was afflicted with a violent burning pain in his swollen limbs. There were no doctors the nobleman could to turn to in 1095, but a nearby church had acquired relics of St....

Lise Meitner: A Noble Scientist

4 Mar 2021

Olivia Fraser Barsby is a biology and anthropology student at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University, specializing in conservation, ecology, evolution and behaviour. 

The Tooth Fairy Science of Bite Mark Comparisons

4 Mar 2021

The idea of using teeth to identify someone has a long history. One of the earliest recorded cases (and perhaps the very first one) dates back to the first century. The wife of Roman Emperor...

A Tryst with Amethyst

23 Feb 2021

An attractive amethyst geode sits on my desk. Geodes are rocks with an internal cavity that is filled with crystals of a mineral. In the case of amethyst that mineral is quartz, tainted with iron...

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