From petri-dish hamburgers to anti-masturbation corn flakes, 2017 has been an interesting year at the OSS. Going through our website, and selecting聽our favourite and craziest science stories was no...
Forty eight years ago there was an epidemic of heart failure in Quebec City. The clue was that the thirty men affected were all beer drinkers. In a round about way, the culprit was the introduction...
The "Food Babe," a lady who blogs about food issues, is a continuous source of comic relief for the scientifically minded but for many members of the public she is a respected "whistleblower" who...
O sleep! O gentle sleep! /聽Nature鈥檚 soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, /聽That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down /聽And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
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...
As part of聽 "Science Rendez-vous," celebrated across the country on Saturday May 9, we will be presenting the "Science of Magic" and "Fun with Chemistry" at the Otto Maass Chemistry Building....
Joe Schwarcz鈥檚 new book, 鈥淢onkeys, Myths and Molecules鈥� is to be launched at the 缅北强奸 bookstore on May 12 at 5:30. Everyone is invited to hear some fun stories and even experience a...
In the Information Age, how can you discern legitimate science from cherry-picked data, opinion posing as fact, association confused with cause and effect, bogus advice from self-appointed experts,...
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