What causes bad breath? – Mel Rosenberg
There is a curse that has plagued humanity since ancient times. The Greeks fought it by chewing aromatic resins, while the Chinese resorted to egg shells. In the ancient Jewish...
There is a curse that has plagued humanity since ancient times. The Greeks fought it by chewing aromatic resins, while the Chinese resorted to egg shells. In the ancient Jewish...
Sometimes when a fish is reeled up to the surface it will appear inflated, with its eyes bulging out of their sockets and its stomach projecting out of its mouth,...
Watch the center of this disk. You are getting sleepy. No, just kidding. I’m not going to hypnotize you. But are you starting to see colors in the rings? If...
What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut-shaking “omm pah pah?” And what makes the trombone so jazzy? The answer lies not in the brass these...
As the story goes, the legendary marksman William Tell was forced into a cruel challenge by a corrupt lord. William’s son was to be executed unless William could shoot an...
Our planet’s diverse thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks, even without cataclysmic events,...
This is the story of three plastic bottles, empty and discarded. Their journeys are about to diverge with outcomes that impact nothing less than the fate of the planet. But...
It’s so obvious that it’s practically proverbial. You can’t unboil an egg. Well, it turns out you can, sort of. What thermal energy does to the eggs’ molecules, mechanical energy...
Imagine the brain could reboot, updating its withered and damaged cells with new, improved units. That may sound like science fiction, but it’s a potential reality scientists are investigating right...
They’re everywhere, but you will never see one. Trillions of them are flying through you right this second, but you can’t feel them. These ghost particles are called neutrinos and...