Archive: 2014

“Doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (14927191426)” by slgckgc – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Who would have guessed that pouring ice water on one’s head would lead to $94.3 million in donations (and counting) to fund…

Thawing Siberian PermafrostNASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY Large quantities of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane are trapped within and beneath polar permafrost, the layer of frozen ground that has not thawed for millennia.…

From Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface Plankton, similar to those that have allegedly been found on the surface of the International Space Station. A recent article published by the Russian News Agency ITAR-TASS has made the…

The fundamental nature of memory has eluded philosophers and scientists for over two millennia.  As early as 350 B.C., Aristotle conjectured that the mind was like a blank wax tablet, or tabula rasa, imprinted with one’s experiences but only made…

The history of modern physics contains several examples of crazy and successful new ideas. Unfortunately for scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, their “impossible” space engine may not be one of them. Why? Simply put, it violates Isaac…

This is a short video of a robot in the Kishony and Springer labs at Harvard Medical School. We often conduct experiments that require watching what happens to microbes in a variety of conditions over time. This custom configured and programmed machine…

The current Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has received a lot of media attention, with terrifying headlines such as “Deadliest Ever Outbreak of Ebola” appearing in papers across the globe [1]. And this is…

The current Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has received a lot of media attention, with terrifying news headlines such as “Deadliest Ever Outbreak of Ebola” appearing across the globe [1]. And this is…

Have you heard? A revolution has seized the scientific community. Within only a few years, research labs worldwide have adopted a new technology that facilitates making specific changes in the DNA of humans, other animals, and plants. Compared to…

bacteria that might be able to subsist on electricity is a tantalizing one and in fact is an idea that has been around for some time