Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. This is ...

When choosing an element to research, Dasia Arguelles picked arsenic. “I wanted to learn why it was so dangerous,” she said. Arguelles learned that the element had some beneficial uses, being used in ...

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