Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Pass the MSG: Monosodium glutamate is just sodium and the amino acid glutamate, which is found in nature. Yet even after scientists have debunked MSG's supposed health effects, the stigma persists. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
You can thank Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XIII and 2,000 years of calendar controversy for our New Year's date and calendar system. Some cultures only recently adopted it. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
The ethical questions raised by emerging neuro-technologies ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Citizen science has seen significant growth during the pandemic. In 2020, these were the top projects on SciStarter.org. ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Call it the 'polar paradox': warming opens the Arctic to more oil drilling and shipping, which causes yet more warming. ...read more