Can eating fat be good for us? Some fatty acid molecules actually play a crucial role in maintaining our health and cellular functions. By the early twentieth century, scientists and doctors widely ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to a dangerously creative experiment: Hydrochloric acid lemonade. Watch as we analyze the science, ...

Exactly how life got started on Earth is still a mystery, but maybe we're looking for answers in the wrong place. Evidence is mounting that the building blocks of life were assembled in space and then ...

Hyaluronic acid is prominent in ophthalmic, medical, pharmacological, and cosmetic applications. Previous hyaluronic acid experiments have involved several size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) studies.

Author Boese (Hippo Eats Dwarf, The Museum of Hoaxes) returns with another look at scientific oddities, this time focusing on unlikely but actual experiments. Included are notorious examples such as ...

An amino acid whose role in the body has been all but a mystery appears to act as a potent seizure inhibitor in mice, according to a study. In a series of experiments, the amino acid D-leucine, found ...

New Rochelle, NY, April 4, 2019--Researchers have proposed new guidelines to overcome current problems facing scientists developing synthetic nucleic acids - such as antisense oligonucleotides and ...

Extraterrestrial life, if it exists, could use different amino acid building blocks than living things here on Earth. To better understand what alien life might look like, researchers are studying ...

Chamaegigas intrepidus is a poikilohydric aquatic plant that lives in rock pools on granitic outcrops in Central Namibia. The pools are filled intermittently during ...