Collaborate Disseminate
When we think of bacteria, we think of simple single-celled organisms that basically exist to consume resources and reproduce. They don’t think, feel, or remember… or do they? Bacteria don’t …read more Continue reading Some Bacteria Could Have A Rudimentary Form Of Memory
Beef soup! You’d normally expect it to be somewhere from reddish-brown to grey, depending on how well it was cooked and prepared. However, strangely, an assistant professor found the beef …read more Continue reading The Blue Soup Saga Is One Beefy Mystery
Working in a university or research laboratory on interesting, complicated problems in the sciences has a romanticized, glorified position in our culture. While the end results are certainly worth celebrating, often the process of new scientific discovery is underwhelming, if not outright tedious. That’s especially true in biology and chemistry, …read more
Caltech geobiologist and MacArthur Fellow Victoria Orphan sheds light on the tiny single-celled organisms that help keep Earth’s climate in check. Continue reading Methane-Eating Ocean Microbes Could Play a Major Role in Climate Change
Luke McKay, an astrobiologist and microbial ecologist, is probing the extreme limits of life on Earth to answer bigger questions about the universe. Continue reading Tiny Organisms in Earth’s Most Unlivable Places May Help Us Find Alien Life
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: micro robots heal mice; Scottish Parliament hacked; Google Allo on desktops
Engineers have built a nanoscale stethoscope, basically. Continue reading New Nanofibers Detect Motion of Individual Bacteria, Muscle cells
And she’s just getting started. Continue reading Aubrie O’Rourke Trained Dolphins, Researched HIV, and Is Helping NASA Get to Mars
And she’s just getting started. Continue reading Aubrie O’Rourke Trained Dolphins, Researched HIV, and Is Helping NASA Get to Mars
This could bring us one step closer to figuring out exactly how to stop Zika. Continue reading Scientists Just Isolated the First Full Zika DNA Sequence in Semen