Laboratory safety is essential for aspiring scientists, yet often neglected due to complacency and external pressures. The tragic case of Professor Karen Wetterhahn, who died from mercury exposure despite following safety protocols, underscores the importance of vigilance and continuous education. Lessons from past incidents like Minamata Disease emphasise the need for strict safety standards.
Radiation is fascinating. In the early years after its discovery it caused untold horrors and life altering changes to those who knew no better.
When answering the question "how many people have died in space?" there are answer can either be 3 or 19.
Polio was once a scourge upon the world but through the selflessness of one individual, Jonas Salk, polio is on its way to being pages in a history book.
Harnessing the power of stars has, quite predictably, not been easy. Ever since Arthur Eddington first described nuclear fusion in the 1920's, we have been looking to harness its potential. Thirty years after this discovery, on a small island in a lake in Argentina, the world would be sold fusion in a bottle.
The Japanese may have believed they were at the end of nuclear weapons incidents at the hands of the Americans, but less than a decade since the Japanese surrender, there was another first in Japan. The world's first death from a hydrogen bomb.
In science, you often hear the phrase 'correlation does not equal causation'. It is a ubiquitous line in science that often requires a lot of explaining. One of the best ways to demonstrate correlation vs causation is a website by Tyler Vigen called Spurious Correlations. For example (see below), as the US government spends on… Continue reading The British Doctor’s Study: The Link Between Smoking and Lung Cancer
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