The Pipettepen – Page 18 – Exposing Graduate Students and Post-Docs to Science Writing

Protein shakes are a wildly popular method to support muscle growth, but a surprisingly overlooked tactic is sleep.

A 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.

Must we suffer fools who would pervert objective scientific findings into divisive weapons? This geneticist-in-training is about to find out!

Methods 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.

My 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.

What 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.

Humanity 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…

The discovery of an exoplanet that rains molten iron captivates the world and captures the promise of combining a telescope with a spectrograph.

Why do we get stuck in information bubbles? What psychological processes are involved? How can you burst your bubble?

The genetics behind how cats develop their coat patterns.

Weight-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…

A 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.

Essential oils, ‘natural’ supplements, and home remedies abound, especially during a pandemic. But can any of them actually enhance your ability to fight infection?

A guide to understanding what it really means when you hear that a developing drug is “in the pipeline”.

In honor of women’s history month, this article is about women’s health. Ladies, our hormones are our superpower, it’s so important to understand our cycle and the pros/cons of birth control. Men, if you have a woman in your life that you care about (partner, mother, daughter, niece, friend), learning more about women’s health will help you support her to be the strongest, healthiest version of herself.

When you’re stressed and frustrated, you might actually just be experiencing fear. That’s thanks to the amygdala for protecting and defending us, but there are steps you can take to prevent yourself from being in a constant state of cortisol-infused fear.

The best source of renewable energy has been living in your fish tank this whole time. Here are the top 5 reasons that algae is the answer to our biofuel needs.

Scientists identified over 100 genes that may be associated with snoring.