How Can Squid Eyes Help Us Understand Light?
Darwin himself wrote of eyes, "The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered [...]
Nonmetal Batteries
As traditional carbon-based sources of energy are dwindling, it's easy to cheer for solar and wind power to seize the moment and drag us out of the climate crisis bed we have made for ourselves. [...]
From Lab to Newsfeeds: Why We Need to Be Skeptical (Like A Scientist) in the Age of COVID-19
What do we do about the microscopic particle of all-things-bad coronavirus? Well, to quote Matt Damon in The Martian: We’re going to have to science the *bleep* out of this. And it's never been [...]
Transcription Factors and Gene Expression
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.
Mechanical Waves: Applications in Medicine
Researchers are making waves in an unlikely place: the human body. The reason? To detect and diagnose diseases.
