Last week I visited the Queen Conch, a large and common shellfish of the Caribbean. Let’s give that subject another whirl.
Articles with Molecules
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Call it the love fool’s drug or chemical brain food — by any name, it’s the best
The heart-shaped boxes are empty. The milk chocolate hearts have been divested of their red foil wraps. Valentine’s week has come and gone.
Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of general anesthesia, 1846.
Customized anesthetics
A friend recently insisted that I watch the video of a cornea transplant operation on his eye — in close-up living color.
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Carbon is no Joe Schmoe
Each year around Christmas time, Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chooses the most important science story of the previous 12 months.
4-(p-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-butanone, the smell of raspberries
Ah, molecules
Someone asked me the other day why I never write about chemistry in this column. I’ll tell you why. Chemistry is boring.