The batteries that power everything from mobile phones to electric vehicles have changed our lives, especially in the current age of a global pandemic. The technology of lithium-ion batteries are built on decades of studies and a variety of expertise around the world, and will progress in the days to come.
Continue ReadingThe opioid addiction crisis has been a hot button issue for some time now. In the middle of the opioid crisis the FDA approved another, more powerful opioid, why?
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Continue ReadingSea star wasting disease is a viral epidemic that absolutely destroyed many of the sea star populations off the Pacific coast of North America a few years ago, and what we learn from this viral outbreak in sea stars may provide insight into other infectious diseases
Continue ReadingWhat are the effects of chronic vaping on the respiratory immune system? Using a mouse model, the authors showed that vaping decreases respiratory immune responses to viral infection, which could have implications for susceptibility to COVID-19 in people who vape.
Continue ReadingMasks have been a controversial topic with COVID-19 and recently the CDC recommended that people wear masks when out in public.
Continue ReadingProtein shakes are a wildly popular method to support muscle growth, but a surprisingly overlooked tactic is sleep.
Continue ReadingA new type of medicine may afford a more permanent form of disease control in honeybees. This blog discusses designer probiotic disease control and relevance to bee health.
Continue ReadingMust we suffer fools who would pervert objective scientific findings into divisive weapons? This geneticist-in-training is about to find out!
Continue ReadingMethods of mathematical modeling can connect us across time and space from today’s headlines of a COVID-19 pandemic to models of magnetism explored in a nearly one-hundred year old doctoral dissertation.
Continue ReadingMy article is about COVID-19 and what it is, how to slow it down, how to understandthe anxiety from the pandemic, and how to survive together.
Continue ReadingWhat if you could eat your food, wrapper and all? Scientists and companies alike are looking into edible packaging as an answer to the growing plastic pollution problem.
Continue ReadingHumanity has long been faced with the question of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Could there be life elsewhere in the universe, and if there is, could it be anything…
Continue ReadingThe discovery of an exoplanet that rains molten iron captivates the world and captures the promise of combining a telescope with a spectrograph.
Continue ReadingWhy do we get stuck in information bubbles? What psychological processes are involved? How can you burst your bubble?
Continue ReadingThe genetics behind how cats develop their coat patterns.
Continue ReadingWeight-based stigma is defined as negative attitudes and discrimination against an individual based on their weight, and tends to be rooted in the belief that those suffering from obesity lack…
Continue ReadingA supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.
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