Have you ever wondered how Popeye derives strength and resilience from spinach? Here’s all you have to know about Popeye’s spinach secret- IRON and its importance in human life.
Continue ReadingA short story on how a PhD student found the value of science communication.
Continue ReadingThe weather is cooler and it’s time to bake! Let’s learn about the science behind different ingredients and how they come together to form baked goods.
Continue ReadingEach fall, the scientific community buzzes, waiting to hear who will win the awards for their inspiring and improbable research. No, not those awards…
Continue ReadingYou may have heard the phrases “Hot Jupiter” or “Super Earth” used to describe planets discovered in other solar systems, but what exactly do those terms mean?
Continue ReadingAlthough climate change will be experienced across the globe, this crisis will only exacerbate existing inequalities. Resilience is no replacement for the fulfilment of human rights and no human is an island in facing these storms.
Continue ReadingSalt is a key component of any recipe. Learn how this small molecule has an outsized effect on the flavor of your food.
Continue ReadingYo-yo dieting and its effects on gut microbiota.
Continue ReadingLooking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin
Continue ReadingThe crab that ensures our safety – from vaccine to medicine to medical devices
Continue ReadingThe projected impacts of climate change are happening right now and will affect where all of us call home.
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably seen one of the stunning first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and maybe even heard that the images are “false color”. In this post I’ll talk first about why the false coloring is necessary in the first place, and then guide you through the steps to download the raw images from NASA and then combine them into your own colorful masterpiece.
Continue ReadingWhat do giraffes, angelfish, and seashells all have in common? Their surface patterns, from the patches on giraffe coats to the stripes on the angelfish, are formed through the reaction-diffusion process, a mathematical model describing the interplay between an activator and inhibitor.
Continue ReadingI recently performed a chemical reaction where I made two carbon atoms from different compounds join to form a new chemical bond. Why is that significant? I explain through the lens of something many of us can understand—love and relationships.
Continue ReadingJewelry and gemstones are popular gifts and symbols of love and status. But what’s the science behind the formation of these materials and what does their future look like?
Continue ReadingWhen the world seems increasingly dystopian, sometimes the best way to grapple with reality is to turn to fiction. Novels like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia Butler’s Parable Series highlight the disturbing ways science fiction parallels, and sometimes predicts, our current reality
Continue ReadingRenewed advocacy by and for American Indian communities is changing the face of archaeology in the United States.
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Washington have developed a tool that can create new protein structures from random amino acid sequences.
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