Archive: Mar 2021

A recent study discovered extraordinary cooperation between bacteriophages, bacteria, and fungi in a water droplet.

by Christopher Rotafigures by Daniel Utter The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every corner of American society, including the lives of scientists. The past year has seen many researchers dramatically shift the focus of their work, as experts from…

Researchers at the University of Calgary identified the cells that may be responsible for the formation of surgical scar tissue.

Aparna Nathan is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Ph.D. program at Harvard University. You can find her on Twitter as @aparnanathan. Wei Wu is a graduate student in the Design Studies program at Harvard…

by Aparna Nathan Susan La Flesche Picotte In 1873, an eight-year-old girl sat by the bedside of an elderly Omaha woman, waiting for the white doctor she had called for four times. But the doctor never arrived and the woman died in pain.  …

Researchers have found that spraying high energy plasma at cheap graphite can make the valuable material graphene.

Time: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 31st Join us on: Zoom (password: science) or YouTube Live Speakers: Will Cairncross, Lewis Picard, Jessie Zhang Graphics: Wei Wu If you could cool something to near absolute zero, how would it behave? What would you use…

by Jaclyn Long figures by Tal Scully A year into the pandemic, many people still struggle to get tested for COVID-19. By some estimates, asymptomatic transmission can account for up to 50% of all new cases, making regular testing of people who…

Social connections in female giraffes are shown to be a strong predictor of decreased mortality.

Time: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 17th Join us on: Zoom (password: science) or YouTube Live Speakers: Eileen Ablondi Graphics: Olivia Foster Rhoades Your DNA contains the instructions to make every part of your body. But who’s reading these…