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Before long (and not a moment too soon), pennies will be nothing more than an annoying memory, a pet peeve I've written about before.

Women have won eight Nobel Prizes in Chemistry; the first went to Marie Curie in 1911, and the second to her daughter, Irene Joliot Curie, in 1935.

Watts Up With That amplified Arielle Selya's recent ACSH report, Fraud, compromise, and groupthink: How warped research incentive

It would shock you to know that Costco, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health methodology, caused 120,687 cases of cancer mortality nationally every year, simply due to living in close proximity to their warehouses.

Daubert is the legal standard federal courts and 44 States, use to decide whether expert scientific testimony is sound enough for a jury to consider.

All of my readers seem to enjoy the monthly birthstone series, so let's keep it going. Unfortunately, those of you born in October may feel cheated; the month has two birthstones, but I'm only going to discuss one of them: opal.

Maggie and Kate Fox’s parents didn’t know what to make of the strange rappings coming from their daughters’ bedroom that memorable evening in March of 1848.

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Sometimes great material comes out of nowhere. Following my September 1st article about sapphires and their chemical similarity to rubies, Jimmy M, a regular reader, left the following comment. It's a gem.