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Recent Archives
Marble Map
Researchers are scanning an ancient marble map of the city of Rome into the computer, in hopes of piecing much of it back together.
Polio Cancer Cure
Modified polio virus can be used to treat gliomas– certain kinds of brain cancers
Yellow Paper
Why does paper yellow with age? (because it contains lignin, the glue that holds wood fibers together. Lignin oxidizes and turns yellow when exposed to oxygen and light)
Food Variety
How too much variety on your dinner plate can add up to inches on your waistline- because your satiety mechanism partially works by limiting your intake of the same tastes.