We all remember how things got blown out of proportion last year and how a lot of schools closed down that really didn't need to, so it's easy to blow off the dangers associated with swine flu and ignore the recent headlines. I thought Microbiology...

My first experience with polarized light was when I borrowed my husband's sunglasses. The light bouncing off of the lake was suddenly gone and I could see the fish swimming up to his fishing bobber. It was all very exciting and turned what was a...

Medicinal chemists think they might have found a new way to kill cancer cells.The problem with cancer cells is that they don't die. Regular cells are programed to divide only so many times before they die but cancer cells just keep going and going....

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