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The Right Chemistry: The folly of water-fuelled vehicles18:32 You cannot get more energy out of a system than has been put in, yet some claim to have found the secret of running cars on water. The Right Chemistry: Niagara Falls and the nebulous positive effects of negative ions19.dubna Negative ions, or "air vitamins," can be found near waterfalls and in forests. The same can't be said for their release from Himalayan salt lamps. The Right Chemistry: Sordid medicine shows exploited Indigenous cures5.dubna American settlers capitalized on Indigenous Peoples' long history of using plants to treat ailments. Opinion: Why you should be totally stoked about totality5.dubna Some of us are preparing for Monday's eclipse like Swifties gearing up for the Eras tour. I am not sure other people quite get it. The Right Chemistry: A tale of benzene poisoning and a snake snaring its own tail29.března August Kekule had been puzzling over the structure of benzene and sank into half-sleep in which he had a daydream of a snake, and the idea of a ring-shaped molecule was born. The Right Chemistry: Can Vitamin C cure the common cold? Hold on22.března Evidence eventually showed it might help, but the idea of vitamins to cure colds came from the same science as lobotomies: eminence-based. Opinion: Provinces lack power grids to meet Ottawa's EV mandate18.března The coming influx of electric vehicles, without sufficient increases in generation capacity, is bound to exacerbate grid reliability issues. The Right Chemistry: Beads that slurp water are amazing, and sometimes dangerous15.března Super-absorbent polymers were a wonderful invention, but don't let kids shoot them out of guns for online clout. Opinion: When it comes to kids' online safety, leave politics aside12.března Challenges persist with issues like age verification; resolving them should be entrusted to technical experts. Opinion: 30 years on, what's happened to the promise of the internet?11.března Then as now, we must ask whether tech evangelists are selling a vision of the future with our interests in mind, and not just theirs. |