science

  • Is It Safe To Microwave Your Food?

    Is It Safe To Microwave Your Food?

    Senaka Ranadheera, Duane Mellor et al

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    Today every kitchen would seem “under-equipped” without a microwave, with its efficient ability to cook, defrost and reheat a variety of different foods. The handy appliance uses microwave radiation to do so. This is a type of electromagnetic radiation similar to radio waves and infrared light. Although generally recognised as safe, the internet is awash…

  • The Real Sixth Sense You Don’t Even Notice You’re Using

    The Real Sixth Sense You Don’t Even Notice You’re Using

    Lifehacker Australia

    Vision. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. Proprioception. Proprioception? Few people are familiar with this sense, although its pioneer studies in the 19th century were by some of the giants of neuroscience: Claude Bernard who had a French university named after him, Sir Charles Bell, and Sir Charles Sherrington who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in…