Pills get into your bloodstream by dissolving in your stomach. But the point of your stomach is to quickly dissolve things, so drug companies have a problem if they want to give you something that ...

Introduction Have you ever added a spoon of sugar to your tea and wondered why it disappeared? Where did it go? The sugar did not actually disappear—it changed from its solid form into a dissolved ...

A patch covered in tiny needles sits on the skin for 120 seconds, then disappears. Five minutes later, even the microscopic holes it created become invisible. But within the dermis, three different ...

When I last spoke to John Rogers from the University of Illinois, we talked about his new “electronic skin” – a patch that can be applied like a temporary tattoo, that monitor heartbeats and brain ...

Will soda dissolve your teeth? The short answer is ‘no,’ and the longer answer is, ‘no, of course not.’ And yet there is a rumor, and has been for decades, that a nail dropped in coca cola will be ...