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The Sex Lives of Insects

7 May 2025

Sex is always a hot topic. Sex in insects is even more intriguing. Most people’s first reaction when they think of insects, is disgust. After all, insects are (most of them anyway) ugly, strange,...

Stem Cells for Pets: Why So Little Progress?

2 May 2025

Maxine is doing it. Tiny Timon is doing it too. Nash is about to start and Sushi the pug is now “pain-free and thriving.” At a certain age, seemingly every dog on Instagram starts embracing stem...

A Taste for Jujubes

24 Apr 2025

To me, jujubes were always the little chewy things that I never let my kids eat. A mix of sugar, modified starch, modified palm oil, pectin, synthetic dyes, natural and artificial flavours. Not...

Chewing Gum Adds to Concerns About Microplastics

18 Apr 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

The Powder of Sympathy

9 Apr 2025

Four hundred years ago, Belgian physician Johann Baptist Van Helmont was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for promoting the use of the “Powder of Sympathy.” The idea had been originally...

Kier’s Four Tempers: Psychological Fact or Fiction?

28 Mar 2025

With the finale of the second season of Apple TV’s most popular show, Severance, being on everyone’s mind, here is a look into some of the (pseudo)science that inspired core concepts explored in...

A Sticky Story

26 Mar 2025

The 1995 season of Seinfeld ended with the death of George’s fiancée. Poor Susan was poisoned. And it was all George’s fault. It seems the prospective groom had purchased the cheapest envelopes for...

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