The holiday season is nearly upon us and it’s easy for a child’s sweet tooth go wild. However, new research shows that it may ...

They used the conditions of World War II to set up a “natural experiment” that evaluated differences between people conceived ...

The two compounds that go into this experiment are ammonium nitrate and potassium chloride ... Combine this with powdered sugar and you’ve got gun powder. Don’t believe that it works?

And in the 1960s the British nutrition expert John Yudkin conducted a series of experiments on animals and people showing that high amounts of sugar in the diet led to high levels of fat and ...

To the upper right we have very pure potassium chlorate, so much so that it bursts into flames when mixed with sugar ... experiment started off with concentrated bleach containing 8.25% sodium ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

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When they react water and a salt called sodium nitrate is produced. Katie: Oh, OK. So, does sodium nitrate have any uses by the way? What is it? Miss Fong: Yes. In industrial settings they're used ...

Children who experienced sugar rationing during World War II were less likely to develop some chronic illnesses as adults than those with no rationing.

This study really gets me very excited because it just basically says, my God, if you're exposed in utero to sugar, years ...

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When they react water and a salt called sodium nitrate is produced. Katie: Oh, OK. So, does sodium nitrate have any uses by the way? What is it? Miss Fong: Yes. In industrial settings they're used ...