Our story starts with 鈥渟urfactants,鈥� a term derived from 鈥渟urface active agents.鈥� These are molecules with one end being 鈥渉ydrophilic鈥�, meaning it is attracted to water, while the other ...
I was startled by the comment from the shopper just behind me at the checkout counter in the supermarket. 聽鈥淵ou really shouldn鈥檛 be doing that!鈥� Noting the quizzical look on my face, a further...
When scientists discover they've been wrong about a disease, changing their minds is only half the battle. The other half is updating everything that came from that misunderstanding: the textbooks,...
Easter Island in the Pacific off the coast of Chile is famous for the giant stone statues that were erected by natives some 500-700 years ago. The thinking is that the statues were designed to...
The last time I went to the doctor, I was handed a form to sign. It was a consent form asking for my permission to allow the doctor to use an AI scribe during our appointment. I signed it without...
Long before 鈥渨ellness influencers鈥� honed the art of spreading misinformation on the internet, the public was at the mercy of being befuddled by hoaxes through chain emails. Way back in the 1990s, I...
Fear of the needle is not reserved to the vaccine hesitant; it extends to biopsies as well. In corners of social media where misinformation accumulates, influencers with an axe to grind against...
These proteins were not supposed to exist. Yet, there they were. As we started to learn more about them, researchers wondered if we hadn鈥檛 stumbled upon new targets for treating diseases like...
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