Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Water: the ultimate resource. We depend on it to survive, but Earth is not the only place with a substantial amount of water. Buckle up, because I want to tell you about my favorite moon, Europa.…
MEL Science is on a mission to make mail-order chemistry kits for kids big again. They’ll deliver two sets per month right to your door containing 1 – 3 chemistry experiments. From their website: “I don’t know about you, but…
The majority of science majors, at least the ones that I know, work in a lab as an undergraduate researcher at some point during their college experience. Those of us that have, know very well the amazing, fun time that…
If you’ve browsed the refrigerated section of your local natural foods store lately, you probably noticed a big case full of kombucha where the bottled water used to be. Kombucha is a fermented sweetened black tea that comes in lots…
So, the other day I got a new prescription, and as I skimmed through the 300 pages of side effect warnings (okay… maybe it was only 3 pages, but the font was ridiculously tiny), I noticed a warning about consuming…
Badass Biology: Humanity’s most badass adaptation At some point, modern humans started believing that we are somehow special, that we are the center of creation and of the universe and that God loves us most. My point isn’t to argue…
As a US citizen who travels internationally to conduct research, I’m well aware of the perception that gringos = $$. Sometimes that perception is true and you have money on your person or have access to it. But sometimes you…
Vision is awesomely complicated. A lot of animals, like the hawk, use vision to detect important environmental cues from vast distances. They use complex eyes and even more complex brains to locate prey, or figure out where the ground starts,…