The year is 1997. Your mother has just bought you a new pair of Skechers shoes. The fact that Skechers’ whole raison d’etre is to take popular shoe styles and rip ...

Korean researchers have coated yeast cells with silica. This could lead to functionalized cells with electrical and computational properties or other properties. They start out by coating the cells ...

No one ever said that John Keats was an ardent flower arranger but he is known to have penned the famous words, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” so he certainly could have been. Many folks ...

Some hacks don’t withstand the test of time. They become victims of ever-evolving technology or simply fall out of fashion. But when it comes to silica gel packets, even age-old hacks are still top ...

Silica gel is a drying agent that often comes in the form of small, clear beads or clear rock crystals placed in small packets made of paper or cloth. These packets are often packaged with commercial ...

When most people get a packet of silica gel in a shoe box or beef jerky packet, their instinct is to toss it. But savvy DIYers have long known that the omnipresent desiccants are good for a lot more ...

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