Archive: 2021

by Tamina Kienka Edward Bouchet, Yale College class of 1874 In the fall of 1852, Edward Bouchet was born to a freed slave living in New Haven, Connecticut. His father worked as a laborer and his mother as a housewife. They were both active in their…

Lightning produces chemical compounds that may play an important role in removing air pollutants.

by Jessica Schifffigures by Rebecca Senft For millennia, people have held to the notion that spending time in nature is healing and restorative. Hippocrates stated that “Nature itself is the best physician”. At some point in our lives, many of us have…

The fight against malaria has been has been plateauing in the last five years. New tools are needed to eradicate malaria, such as a technology called gene drive.

Interviewee: Dr. Sara Cherry, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaInterviewer: Hope Merens, PhD Student in Molecular Biology, Harvard University Over the past year, COVID-19 has affected every aspect of our…

Time: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 12th Join us on: Zoom (password: science) or YouTube Live Speakers: Shireen Hamza and Claire Sabel Graphics: Corina Loeb An introductory course in the history of science often follows a path “from Plato to NATO,” leaping…

by Aleks Procherafigures by Shreya Mantri  The past year and a half have been a time of profound uncertainty. We all wish we could gaze into a COVID crystal ball and get answers to our burning questions. Some of us would want to know how long the…

How can a spore travel around in the soil? Try hitchhiking onto a bacteria that can move.

Honeybees relay chemical messages to alert other worker bees in a colony to the queen’s location.

by Olivia Foster Rhoades Dr. Margaret S. Collins Termites are more than just pests. With over 2,800 species in the world, termites keep soils healthy, can communicate through vibrations,  and termite queens can live upwards of 30 years.…