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Understanding Past Oceans, One Carbon Isotope at a Time
One of the best ways to get insight into current ocean-climate dynamics is by understanding the…
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Understanding the Oceans, One Wave at a Time
The oceans are awash in sound. Researchers scoping out marine soundscapes are empowering technological advances and…
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War, Malaria, and Wormwood: How Tu Youyou Discovered Artemisinin
Tu Youyou is a Chinese scientist who received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin,…
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15 Biology Lab Hacks for Beginners
Some of these may seem ridiculously obvious. But if even one is new, it might make…
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More Species to Find in a Redwood Forest
Photo gallery: plants (and creatures!) to look for on your next hike in the Bay Area’s…
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High School Girl, Don’t Let Boys Scare You From STEM
This post was originally published on Mentors Now. Our group of graduate student mentors and their…
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Cell Chemistry Gone Wrong: How Disease Begins in Cells and How We Can Fix It
The internal chemistry of human cells is a marvelously complex world.
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Can Microbes Discover New Drugs for us?
Many modern medicines come from biology. Can biological systems be used to find even more of…
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TL;DR of 100 Books Read in 2021
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Why do bad things happen to good people? Why…
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Cancer Cells Can Evade Treatment. How Can We Stop Them?
Check out my latest article for Science Buffs, the STEM blog for University of Colorado Boulder!
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Anarchists, Abbeys, and Murder (Real or Imagined): Half a Year’s Worth of Classic Literature
Last year (or was it the year before), I got around to Adler & Van Doren’s…
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Microbiomes Digest Styrofoam for Mealworms
You are tasked with the care of a clew of mealworms. You swap out the bran…
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Graduate Student Bookshelf: Creativity
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi You may know Csikszentmihalyi from his…
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Beyond Bioremediation: Plants that Check for Pollution
Effortless. Elegant. Plants make for perfect hydraulic technology.
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Go to the Penguin: Regulating Heat
Swarms in nature can teach us how to get organized behavior in a swarm of robots,…
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Putting Microbes to Work in Ocean Science
What if we could use diatoms to monitor ocean chemistry and biology?
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Go to the Ant: Self Assembly
They modeled the ants – as a fluid. So they looked at their ant fluid, with…
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Genes that Jump and the Scientist who Discovered Them
What can a study of speckled corn teach about genetics?
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