“If you don’t close you’re eyes when you sneeze, you’ll pop out an eyeball!” It’s what the kids on the playground always said, right?
And like much of the information crowdsourced from your friends when you were 7, it’s not exactly true.
You can almost hear the molecular scissors going *snip* *snip*.
The sting of getting a cut isn’t the same as the sting of cleaning a cut.
It’s a cocktail of biology, chemistry, and engineering.
[Ed. note: Today’s post comes to you courtesy of cell biologist, science writer and foodie Christina Szalinski. Her topic: how to draw in and kill those pesky fruit flies.] It’s […]
