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David Mangus is a molecular biologist and former research scientist whose work focused on understanding how Baker’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, regulate their genes. He currently leads the [...]

Rebecca Clements studies parasites, in particular the parasites that cause malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. She is currently a graduate student at Harvard University where she is researching the [...]

Picture it: A giant (like, seriously giant) tray full of bacteria. Billions and billions of bacteria just growing and spreading. A germaphobe's worst nightmare? Nah. These bacteria (like most [...]

How do you design a robot that can swim efficiently under water? Scientists are studying the physics behind dolphin movement for the answer! (And if you're wondering why scientists are [...]

Tanning mice. Yep. You read that right. Mice with tans are at the center of this story of how researchers are looking into drugs that can trick our cells into tanning without the sun.

Melissa Kelly is a Biology teacher at Brockton High School in Brockton, MA.  She has has been teaching for eleven years and recently earned a license in Special Education. Her goal is to make [...]

Steph Guerra is a recent graduate of Harvard University with a doctorate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Her thesis work focuses on developing more effective treatments for lung cancer [...]

Quantum physics is behind advances in digital cameras and cell phones, so it must also be able to explain the basics, right? Wrong. It turns out that classical physics doesn’t always work in the [...]

Using DNA analysis, researchers were able to effectively trace the evolution of HIV backwards in time to find the common ancestor of HIV samples circulating among humans today. Why is that [...]

Seen one solid, you've seen them all, right? Of course not. In fact, researchers recently developed a whole new type of solid that might be the key to future technologies, from clean energy to [...]