Rebecca Jarvis sits with Consumer Reports Editor in Chief Kim Kleman about what the magazine says is the intentional mix-ups of different kinds of fish in fish markets and restaurants and how it can affect your health.
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The idea of drugs tunneling their way through the brain, worms to the mind’s apple, is a frequent metaphor I hear. I wrote on the topic for Discovery’s Curiosity and resurfaced it to prepare material for drug education talks with high schoolers.
Read More »Does the Multiverse Really Exist? (preview)
In the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. There is not one universe--there is a multiverse.
Read More »Evolution of the Eye (preview)
The human eye is an exquisitely complicated organ. It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images. But instead of photographic film, it has a highly specialized retina that detects light and processes the signals using dozens of different kinds of neurons
Read More »Scientists create one-dimensional ferroelectric ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone knows that when water freezes, it forms ice. But a lesser known fact is that there is not one, but many different kinds of ice, depending on the way the ice crystals are arranged
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