The new year is a new horizon full of possibilities and potential. While the clean slate can seem daunting to some, to others it represents an opportunity to commit themselves…
Continue Reading“Detoxing” is all the rage right now—whether it’s foregoing solid foods in favor of juices during a liquid cleanse, suffering through a colon cleanse in the form of a colonic…
Continue Reading(Caution: do not read just before lunch!) We all know the feeling… queasiness, belly in knots, guts on fire and no end in sight. Now I want you to imagine…
Continue ReadingYou have probably never met anyone suffering from sleeping sickness, a potentially fatal condition. This is because the disease, also called African Trypanosomiasis, is only present in certain regions of…
Continue ReadingAny scientist knows the importance of a good negative control. A negative control in an experiment is a group of samples or subjects in which no response is expected to…
Continue ReadingAs of Friday November 16, 2018, California was home to the three most polluted cities in the world. These three cities – San Francisco, Stockton, and Sacramento – topped the…
Continue ReadingImagine you are working on a project with a large group of people, all with different personalities and responsibilities. Your group was just informed that something important to the progress…
Continue ReadingHurricanes are well-known for how unpredictable their paths can be. As wild as they can get, we can usually count on two things for storms that live primarily in the…
Continue ReadingScience literacy is the ability to read English words in a new language – the language of science. You might measure science literacy by being conversant in various fields.…
Continue ReadingWhen the days suddenly seem shorter and the nights are colder, you know fall has arrived. You especially know it’s here when the leaves gain a reddish hue and soon…
Continue ReadingOne of the most controversial aspects of biomedical research is the use of animals to benefit humans. Scientists use animals to test new treatments for human diseases and to understand…
Continue ReadingDid you find the past few years’ climate peculiar, with extremely high temperature or intense rainfall days occurring more often? Have you ever heard of shrinking ice sheets or seen…
Continue ReadingWhile HIV treatment has come a long way over the past few decades, there is still a discrepancy between total number of HIV patients and those with access to life-saving…
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever been lost in an unfamiliar city or tried to walk around in the dark, then you may have found yourself wishing you had the eyes of a…
Continue ReadingEvolution, 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.…
Continue ReadingAuto-Bio-Graphy = Self-Life-Writing or how your body and life look as told through choreography. This is what Wayne McGregor imagined as he began working on Autobiography with the McGregor Company Dancers. The…
Continue ReadingCancer is an immensely complex disease to treat. The number of mutations and combinations of mutations that can lead to its development make each “cure” more of a patch to…
Continue ReadingThis election cycle, North Carolinians will be voting on six constitutional amendments, one of which is the Right to Hunt and Fish Amendment. The amendment would upgrade hunting and fishing…
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