The precious noise-cancelling headphones that every seasoned traveller carries in their bags are actually quite an incredible piece of technology. These headphones work by listening via microphone...
The idea that birth control pills make the user gain weight has been floating around since the first appearance of contraceptive pills on the market in the 1950鈥檚, but hasn鈥檛 been true for quite...
The sensation of itching used to be thought of as a sort of low-grade pain response, which was detected by the same nerves responsible for finding bodily injuries. Recent research, however, has...
You鈥檝e probably heard of the bounce test for dead batteries- simply drop a battery, and if it bounces, it鈥檚 dead. It turns out that this isn鈥檛 completely true. Conventional batteries have an outer...
