Tag: Toxins
Can we train our taste buds for health? A neuroscientist explains...
Monica Dus, University of Michigan
Have you ever wondered why only hummingbirds sip nectar from feeders?
Poisons are a potent tool for murder in fiction – a...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals...
Kicking off the new year by cleansing your body with a...
Taylor Grasso, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Detox diets are often touted as a way to cleanse the...
A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew...
Bill Kovarik, Radford University
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General...
Male fertility is declining – studies show that environmental toxins could...
Ryan P. Smith, University of Virginia
In the U.S., nearly 1 in 8 couples struggles with infertility. Unfortunately, physicians...
Hangovers happen as your body tries to protect itself from alcohol’s...
Daryl Davies, University of Southern California; Joshua Silva, University of Southern California, and Terry David Church, University of Southern California
Debaucherous evening last night? You’re...
Seaweed and sea slugs rely on toxic bacteria to defend against...
Samantha Mascuch, Georgia Institute of Technology and Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology
Plants, animals and even microbes that live on coral reefs have evolved...
Tiny beads, big problem, easy fix: why scientific evidence supports a...
Chelsea Rochman, University of California, Davis and Sara Kross, University of California, Davis
Every day, millions of people around the world wash their skin and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
