For years I've been telling people I'm "numbers dyslexic" because I can do math but misread the order of numbers outloud. I've never heard of "Dyscalculia" before, but my problem doesn't seem to be a symptom.

0 comments | brain, education, math, neuroscience, NewYorker, science |

56% Corn? Light fluid?

1 comment | food, health, nutrition, science |

0 comments | coke, mentos, science, Video |

Artificial eggs, which look and taste like the real thing, but could cause dementia when consumed in large quanities.

0 comments | china, food, science |

Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color.

0 comments | color, science, toy |

Scientists will release harmless gases in New York City subways and streets and track them to produce a computer model of air flow patterns that could help with evacuation plans after a bioterrorist attack.

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But is harmless to humans and other animals.

0 comments | quicklink, science |