Chemistry
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Baking Gluten-Free Bread, Part 1
I think we can all agree that bread (and its many cousins like pizza dough and bagels) is pretty delicious…
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Bare Paint: Conductive Paint
Bare Paint is the result of collaboration between artists and engineers at the Royal College of Art in London. While…
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The Physics and Chemistry of Emulsions and Blender Mayonnaise
I am a big fan of mayonnaise. I like it on my fries, on my burgers, and combined with different…
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Vostok Fuel: a Cocktail for Yuri’s Night
Tomorrow, April 12th, we celebrate Yuri’s Night, the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in…
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Stem Cells, Telomeres, and other Biological Fountains of Youth
If you believe certain musical groups, everybody wants to live forever (while ruling the world?). Our fascination with immortality is…
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Tired of eating food? Here’s an alternative
If you could get all of the nourishment your body needed by consuming a carefully proportioned mix of vitamins and…
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The Perot Museum: An Oasis of Science
With all of the controversy surrounding Texas schools teaching Creationism (including Young Earth Creationism which teaches that the Earth is…
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MaKey MaKey Cat Photo Booth
As you probably know, water is conductive (hopefully you didn’t learn that the hard way). What this means, among other…
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