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Instant Smoke Drops Add a Little Magic To Your Photographs
Unless you're a master at 3D and compositing, digitally adding smoke to a photo is a lot harder than adding it practically while you're shooting. And with these instant smoke drops, you can easily...
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Dry Cleaning: It’s Not What You Think
For me, dry cleaning has always belonged in a category of miracles, along with colour-safe bleach, dry shampoo, and acupuncture. They seem to work, but is it only because we'd like to believe they do?...
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Who Needs a Pharmacy When You Can Just Print-Out Your Own Drugs at Home?
Imagine a future where you can just download a drug off the internet and print it out when you need a quick pick-me-up – it’s just become a reality thanks to the marvels of 3D printers. Researchers...
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Where the Different Colours of Fireworks Actually Come From
If you want to scientifically impress your friends (or look like a hoity toity smartypants), you can tell them what the color of fireworks really mean. See that explosion of electric white? That’s...
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What Coloured Food Does to Your Poop
Those without a strong stomach should look away now. When Gabriel Morais set to wondering what different foods do to his body, he naturally wondered how different items affect the colour of his poop....
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Colour-Changing Gloves Alert Lab Workers To Invisible Toxins
The trickiest part of avoiding exposure to toxic substances is that they’re often invisible, odorless, and undetectable to our five senses. And as an alternative to expensive detectors and other...
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All the Hidden Chemicals That Are Lurking In Your Coffee
Caffeine. For most of us, that’s the only chemical compound in coffee that’s worth a damn. But that’s far from the only thing that’s hiding in that simmering cup of black (or light brownish) glory that...
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Here Are 5 Toxic Chemicals in Your Food
You know what I hate about eating? The constant conversation on whether this food is good for you or bad for you. It seems to change everyday! New reports say this will cause cancer. Other reports say...
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Setting Fire To These Incredible Chemicals Is Like the Best Chemistry Lesson...
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mixed Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) and Ammonium chromate (NH4)2CrO4 together and then lit it on fire? NO?! What’s wrong with you? It’s unbelievably...
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What’s the Ink in a Standard Rollerball Pen Made Of?
You probably have no idea where the ink in your pen comes from, much less whether it’s a simple factory process or demanding of more expertise. Josh Velson, a chemical engineering consultant for bio...
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Makers of “Legal High” Drugs Might be Forced to Prove Their Safety
The Home Office is looking at ways to police the legal high industry more effectively, with one plan being to require makers of the various giddiness potions to prove their safety before they are...
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All-Natural Bananas are Filled With Chemicals
The next time you’re peeling a fresh, organic, “all-natural” banana just remember: it’s filled with tonnes of chemicals! But don’t worry, so is everything else. James Kennedy, a chemistry teacher...
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