Tag Archives: Science
By the early 2000s, surveys found South Korean kids were, on average, about 3 inches (8 cm) taller…
Scientists Teaching the Unexpected: Quiet Lessons from Unusual Experiments
Science is usually imagined as orderly—white rooms, careful notes, steady progress. In practice, it can be stranger than that. Curiosity has a habit of wandering off-script, especially when researchers try to teach animals ideas borrowed from human life: money, language, fairness, exchange. What follows isn’t a collection of punchlines. These are moments where teaching went… Read More »
Many people think fish breathe the oxygen inside the water molecule H2O, but that oxygen is bonded…
Scientists traced the CCR5-Δ32 gene variant (linked to some HIV resistance) to a single ancestor who…
Male pattern baldness doesn’t typically affect Native American, First Nations, and Alaska Native…
A small clinical trial found that putting crude onion juice on patchy alopecia areata spots helped…
CANDU: Canada’s Ingenious but Doomed Nuclear Reactor
At 3:45 PM on September 5, 1945, history was made at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario as the Zero Energy Experimental Pile or ZEEP achieved criticality for the first time. In that moment, Canada entered the nuclear age – only the second country after the United States to do so. While rarely thought of as… Read More »