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10 Life Hacks For A Happier Lab Experience
When your Western blot looks more like abstract art, or unlabeled reagents have you scratching your head, never fear—look to these benchwork hacks!
When Lightning Strikes The Clock Tower
Marty McFly and the Doc travel in time by using the energy of lightning in Back to the Future, but is it really possible to generate electricity from a lightning bolt?
What Is A Scientist?
Are engineers considered scientists? What about lab technicians, archaeologists and art historians? The answer isn’t always obvious...
Google Lunar XPRIZE: Asia’s Teams Shoot For The Moon
Three teams from Asia are racing to win in the 2016 Google Lunar XPRIZE competition.
The Must-Have Tools Of A Young Science Communicator
What do you do when you have a science-obsessed child with many interests? Get him blogging, scrapbooking and making videos, of course!
The Mean Reds
In the developing world, something as natural as menstruation still elicits ignorant reactions, and causes girls to drop out of school—perpetuating the cycle of disempowerment and poverty.
How Mosquitoes & Microbes Changed The Course Of A Canal
The Panama Canal “was dug with a microscope”—only when yellow fever and malaria were eradicated, could its construction continue.
The Meaning Of Life? 473
Answering the question of what is the minimum number of genes required for life has turned out to be a lot more complicated than expected.
A Scientific Approach To Dating
If you think about it, relationships are just like scientific experiments: sometimes, no matter the outcomes of dates, the end results can be unpredictable.
