Collaborate Disseminate
It sounds like science fiction — and until 2012, the ability to cheaply and easily edit strings of DNA was exactly that. But as it turns out, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a completely natural function in which bacteria catalogs its interactions with viruses by taking a snippet of the virus’ …read more
Remember subliminal advertising? The idea was that a movie theater operator would splice a single frame showing a bucket of hot buttered popcorn into a movie, which moviegoers would see and process on a subconcious level and rush to the concession stand to buy the tub o’ petrochemical-glazed starch they …read more
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she has battled “imposter syndrome” at many points in her career as a physicist. Continue reading Physicist Wins $3 Million Prize for Discovering Pulsars, Donates it All to Promoting Diversity in STEM
2018 Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou made a music video where female dancers tear off their lab coats. Continue reading Physicist’s ‘Inappropriate’ Music Video Resurfaces After He Wins the Nobel Prize
The annual parody of the Nobel Prize also celebrated studies about human saliva as a cleaning agent, the effect of roller-coasters of kidney stones, and the use of postage stamps as erection detectors. Continue reading The 2018 Ig Nobels Honor Discoveries About Cannibalism, Voodoo, and DIY Colonoscopies
After years of attempts, the particle’s most common decay pattern has finally been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. Continue reading In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Observe Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks
Dr. Barry Marshall swallowed helicobacter pylori to prove it was the cause of a common ailment. Continue reading To Solve a Medical Mystery, This Doctor Drank Live Bacteria
Maybe Wikipedia readers shouldn’t need science degrees to digest articles about basic topics. Just an idea. Continue reading Wikipedia’s Science Articles Are Elitist
On Thursday, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ Predicted the Gene Editing Debate
There was little hope for blood cancer patients until Donnall Thomas came along. Continue reading This Is What It’s Like Living With Two Types of DNA