The press went crazy jumping all over a report that four North Carolina students invented a nail polish to detect "date rape" drugs. Just dip a finger into a drink, and watch for a colour change...
Health Canada is set to ban topical mosquito repellants that contain oil of citronella. The oil contains methyleugenol, a compound that has caused liver tumours in rats fed in large doses, but this...
When I first came across a 鈥渨onder鈥� product called ASEA on the web, I thought someone had come up with a clever parody.聽 The Internet of course is full of of ads for supplements, drinks and...
Is fish really brain food? P.G. Wodehouse certainly thought so. In his wonderful 鈥淛eeves鈥� stories, Bertie Wooster encourages his brainy butler to eat more fish whenever a particularly challenging...
A question came up about the risks of chemicals leaching out of those convenient coffee K cups. Yes, chemicals do leach out. That of course is the idea, you want to leach out the hundreds of...
You may have heard of propylene glycol in several contexts. It is used as a safer alternative to ethylene glycol in antifreeze, as a preservative in foods and cosmetics, as a solvent in some...
