Archive: Jan 2017

For the third year in a row, global average temperature records have been broken . Earth experienced the highest temperatures since we began keeping records back in 1880 and, compared to the average temperature of the 20th century (1901-2000), 2016…

High-resolution microscope image of antibiotic-resistant bacteria killing a white blood cell. [Image ‘Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Bacteria’ from NIAID]It’s an all-too-common refrain nowadays, but antibiotic resistance…

by Christopher Gerry figures by Mike MacArthur The last few years have seen an explosion in our capacity to study the human genetic code. In particular, a technology called CRISPR/Cas9 has been at the forefront of many of these advances, capturing the…

Chemotherapy is a common and dangerous cancer treatment due to the negative effects on everything that is not a tumor cell. Researchers from Columbia University have invented a soft medical implant capable of administering drugs from inside the body. The…

Peanut allergies have the potential to seriously impact a child’s life. In some cases, the mere presence of a peanut-product can create a life threatening situation. Over the years, doctors have released a variety of recommendations designed to limit the…

by Rebecca Senft figures by Michael Gerhardt and Rebecca Senft If you’ve ever seen a long line of ducklings waddling across a road, you know that they follow their mother dutifully, even in the face of oncoming traffic. Ducklings, like many species of…

Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 storm, hit Haiti on October 4, 2016 [Image: Hurricane Matthew Hits Haiti/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under CC-BY licence]In 2012, Hurricane Sandy, the second costliest hurricane in United States history, caused the…

by Steph Guerra figures by Rebecca Clements It has been one year since President Obama announced the Cancer Moonshot Initiative. Since then, the Moonshot has convened a Blue Ribbon panel to brainstorm ten recommendations to be completed over the course…

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Physicists at CERN have observed the light emitted from antimatter for the first time, bringing us one step closer to unraveling one of the longest-standing problems in physics today – why is it that regular matter is so much more abundant than…