3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (458+ words) The Matilda Effect- How Women's Discoveries Are Written Out "The most remarkable invention of the age. the cotton gin- owes its origin to a woman, [the employer and patron of Whitney], Catherine Littlefield Greene, with whom the idea originated." According…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (732+ words) Let's get something straight right away. "For too long, some food producers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or consent. These poisonous compounds offer no nutritional benefit and pose real, measurable dangers to our children's health and…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (509+ words) Formaldehyde is a colorless gas that is found everywhere. It is produced naturally by humans, animals, and plants, and is in car exhaust, furnaces, stoves, and forest fires. It is also released into the air from industries that produce or…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (558+ words) There are many types of ice. And, sticking with the pop music motif, BTO recorded "You ain't seen nothing yet" in 1974. I'm not sure how stutterers thought about this. But scientists keep pushing it harder, colder, and stranger, and a…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (388+ words) One way to think of sodium metal is as an "amusing lethal weapon." Here's why. Despite its extreme reactivity, most chemists find it "fun" to use. It's not like any metal you've encountered. It's so soft that it is easily…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (528+ words) By any measure, plastic waste is a global headache. Whether in the form of microplastics infiltrating the food chain or mountains of discarded water bottles choking shorelines around the world, it poses a nasty problem for which no easy solution…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (245+ words) In January 2025, Iwrote about how the battle to define "unreasonable risk" under the Chemical Safety Act (CSA) would become one of the key battles of the Trump Administration's EPA. This prediction hit the mark, with the recent announcement that the…...