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Chemistry

Chemistry—Weird and Otherwise

During this—Chemistry Week—check out the “Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Chemistry.” The site’s periodic postings are offered up by Bryn Mawr College computational chemist Michelle M. Francl, who comments on events of the day—always inserting a gentle chemistry twist. She notes that her blog “began as part of an NSF grant to write […]

Humans

From the October 23, 1937, issue

Soviet hydroelectricity powers electric farm equipment, breeding programs create rats with cancer resistance and rabbits with an extra rib, and artificial fertilization is made to work in fruit flies.

Animals

Smells Funny: Fish schools break up over body odor

Just an hour's swim in slightly contaminated water can give a fish such bad body odor that its schoolmates shun it.