The farmer had purchased some potassium permanganate. Exactly why he needed it isn鈥檛 clear but using it as a disinfectant to clean the udders and teats of cows before and after milking is a...
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."聽 With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
If you drive to pick up your child after school and notice that sometimes they go and greet聽another parent聽instead who has a car similar to yours, what goes through your head?
Wake up, go to work, seek out caffeinated beverages, get food, share food with others, store leftovers for later, and repeat. This routine sure does sound familiar, doesn鈥檛 it? With over 3.5...
In 1995, researchers from Cambridge University asked the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for a sample of an eyeball that had been sitting in a jar on a shelf since 1844. That eye had...
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