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To Cram or To Sleep; Are Students Focusing on The Wrong Sleep Habits?

5 Jul 2024

I was no stranger to late nights and early awakenings during my early undergraduate years. I stretched myself thin on sleep but told myself that all would be well if I got a good night鈥檚 sleep the...

Why Scary Lab Accidents Happen

21 Jun 2024

If a chemist has never been in a lab accident, he has been lucky. Of course, luck is more likely to come to those whose mentors have learned from bad experiences and to those who have taken...

The Chemistry of Inks: Old and New

7 Jun 2024

When we write the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper, we rarely think of the pen鈥檚 ingredients. For hundreds of years聽gall ink聽was used to produce documents such as Shakespeare鈥檚 will and the U.S...

Pass on the Salt: Should We Ask for Potassium Chloride at the Dinner Table Instead?

17 May 2024

The simple combination of sodium and chloride (NaCl) gives rise to a mineral, salt, with endless uses, particularly within the culinary world. Salt is known to enhance our taste perception 鈥 there...

鈥淗ey Doc, I鈥檓 Hard To Freeze鈥

3 May 2024

Let鈥檚 face it, dentistry is not an easy job. Besides the clinical knowledge and expertise required, managing patients' fear is an essential part of being a good dentist. Anticipation of pain during...

We know about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, but what is 鈥楾ype 3 diabetes鈥?

12 Apr 2024

The incidence of diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic levels in recent years, affecting one in every 10 adults globally in 2021. Ninety percent of these individuals have Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)...

Leptin-A Hormone To Regulate Appetite?

8 Mar 2024

The implementation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-based drugs for the treatment of obesity has been an incredible advance in the field, enabling up to 25% decreases in body weight in many...

The Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Who Became His Own Patient

9 Feb 2024

For over 100 years the Nobel foundation has recognized outstanding individuals for contributions to their respective fields; however, the rules stipulate that prizes cannot be awarded posthumously....

Going Bananas

8 Dec 2023

Once upon a time, there was a banana plant. This banana plant lived in an English estate in the 1830s, and was named 鈥渢he Cavendish鈥, after the Cavendish Family who lived on this estate.

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