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The Truth About Truth Serum

3 May 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

Why Do Kids Get Cancer?

26 Apr 2024

I attended a seminar many years ago given by a Ph.D. student who had spent years working on a particular type of childhood cancer. During the question-and-answer period, I raised my hand. I wanted...

Passover Stories Can Ignite Science

18 Apr 2024

聽鈥淢oses looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.鈥 That passage from Exodus is one of the most famous ones in the entire Bible! After all, it was from that...

Acetone, Horse Chestnuts and the Weizmann Institute

10 Apr 2024

There were no video games. There was no Internet. TV had not yet been invented. So in the early 1900s, British children played 鈥渃onkers.鈥 This is perhaps best described as an early form of ...

Infatuated With Chemistry

3 Apr 2024

The fact that virtually everything in our life, be it digesting our food, using medications to treat disease, producing the clothes we wear, and even the grinding of our mental gears can be...

It鈥檚 A Chemical World!

6 Mar 2024

It鈥檚 a chemical world out there! We are awash in some fifty million known chemicals, the majority of which are created by nature, a minority by chemists. They鈥檙e not good or bad, not safe or...

How to Keep Cut Flowers Looking Fresh, With Science

23 Feb 2024

It's a lovely feeling to wake up in the morning and be greeted by a beautiful bouquet artfully arranged in a vase. But it's a far less pleasant one when you start to notice their petals falling,...

Phenylethylamine is Said To Stoke the Fire of Love. Here Comes the Water Bucket.

14 Feb 2024

American humorist James Thurber reputedly once remarked that 鈥渓ove is a strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.鈥 Anyone who has ever been in love will agree....

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