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Blog / Tea Leaves and Test Tubes: When Traditional Plant Remedies Stand Up to Research

May 5, 2025 / Luvna Dhawka /

From willow bark to Nobel Prize-winning malaria treatments, ancient plant remedies that have withstood scientific scrutiny continue to fuel breakthrough medical discoveries in the modern world. When my dermatologist suggested…

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Blog / 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine: A Small World Revolution

October 15, 2024October 14, 2024 / Syed Masood /

Nature 1953, Watson and Crick publish “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” winning the race with researchers around the globe to first publish the structure…

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Blog / Capitol Gains: How US Policies Shape Financial and Human Capital in Science

November 6, 2023 / Danica Dy /

These policies impact what science can be done, who is allowed to conduct it, and who has a say in advising these policies.

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Blog / Capsaicin: from mild to medicine

March 21, 2023March 22, 2023 / Ivanna Zhilinskaya /

Capsaicin, or the spice molecule, has far more function and benefit than just causing you to break a sweat. It can contribute to a longer and healthier life and now we know why.

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Blog / Using Tools from the Study of Ancient DNA to Understand History

October 27, 2022 / Meaghan Kennedy Ng /

My article discusses the use of scientific tools to better understand historical events, with an emphasis on the development of tools and methodologies to sequence ancient DNA.

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Blog / The Ig Nobel: celebrating the silliest science of the year

October 11, 2022 / Corban Murphey /

Each fall, the scientific community buzzes, waiting to hear who will win the awards for their inspiring and improbable research. No, not those awards…

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Blog / Climate Change Gets a Nobel Nod

October 29, 2021 / Corban Murphey /

We all know that combating climate change is a monumental task, and this year’s Nobel Prize is shared by three scientists that laid the groundwork for climate research.

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Blog / How Drinking Bacteria Won Scientists the Nobel Prize

October 26, 2021 / Taylor Tibbs /

The discovery of Helicobacter pylori and its link to stomach ulcers was initially dismissed in scientific and medical fields…until one scientist donated his own stomach to the cause.

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Blog / The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

August 12, 2021 / Syed Masood /

How does plastic end up in the ocean, and what is the negative impact on ocean ecology and marine life?

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Blog / #womeninscience do cool research

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 / Kayla Goforth /

CRISPR-Cas9 is a molecular tool used for genome editing. The discovery of CRISPR was by two women, who recently won a Nobel Prize for their research on genome editing.

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Blog / The laureate prize hidden in your electronic gadgets

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 / Chiungwei Huang /

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.

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Blog / Whatever happened to graphene?

November 13, 2019November 15, 2019 / Corban Murphey / 2

A decade ago, the discovery of graphene left everyone in anticipation of a tech revolution. But where has all the hype gone?

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Blog / Yeast in science: from glass to flask

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 / Colleen Lawrimore /

We eat (or drink) them all the time, but what about in the lab? For scientists, yeast has been an invaluable tool for making biological discoveries.

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Blog / A Few Nobel Women

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 / Julia DiFiore / 1

The most prestigious scientific prize is being awarded this week – the Nobel Prize. Who will win? History tells us not to expect many women among the winners and that points to systemic problems in STEM.

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Blog / Nobel in Chemistry for an Evolutionary Revolution

November 13, 2018November 24, 2018 / Syed Masood /

Evolution, the process of gradual changes to genetic information in each generation over millions of years, proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century is being revolutionized by modern science.…

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Blog / Lacking Nobel-ity

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 / Kaylee Helfrich / 1

Do you want to learn about how the material of pants affects the sex life of rats?  Or about the different personalities of rocks? How about someone who invented prosthetic…

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