Watch: Add drain cleaner to sugar for an awesome science experiment
If you’re looking for a fun (but dangerous – wear gloves and eye protection!!) science experiment to do at home, here’s a good one. Simply stir drain cleaner (98% sulfuric...
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6 Science-Backed Benefits of Probiotics & Who Should Take Them
Should everyone be taking a probiotic supplement?
The New Science Of Aging: How To Biohack Your Way To A Longer, Healthier Life
Want to live to 120? Scientists think they can make it happen.
The New Science Of Cellular Beauty & Why It Will Transform Your Skin
Robert Rountree, M.D., explains the process in full.
20 Science-Backed Ways To Fall Asleep Naturally & Quickly
Struggling to fall asleep? Try these tips.
Interactive online tour of Antarctica's microworld from science hacker Ariel Waldman
BB contributor and DIY science hacker Ariel Waldmnan recently went on a research expedition to Antarctica to study microscopic extremophiles under the ice. She made a great...
Podcast: Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail editorial, Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things, where I reflect on...
Wanda Diaz Merced is a blind astronomer who hears the science of the stars
Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach in Mitaka, Japan. Diaz Merced is blind and uses a technique to...
Science fiction, Canada and the 2020s: my look at the decade ahead for the Globe and Mail
The editors of Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to reflect on what science fiction can tell us about the 2020s for their end-of-the-decade package; I wrote about how science...