Thank you Sruthi. I was surprised by the fact that the glove recycling programs aren’t more popular, given how well they worked at my previous department, so I felt like I had to do some digging to ...

Between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago, humans started hanging out with a particularly friendly breed of wolves: dogs. Scientists assume that these ancient pooches were first drawn to our settlements by ...

When Shepherd started looking into this, what he found was “completely unexpected.” In the lab, the Arc protein kept clumping up. “It seemed to be behaving weirdly,” he recalls. “We almost stopped ...

This is a really interesting take on sustainability in organic farming, and a great read! There is a general lack of awareness about what “organic” really means - farmers are even allowed to use nasty ...

I for one am excited about the idea of buying lab-grown spiderweb t-shirts! I’m curious: what substrates are being used to grow the yeast and ultimately generate the protein product? The reason I ask ...

In many species, not long after fertilization, the embryo implants into the uterus wall, preparing it for further development. In humans this implantation occurs at around day eight to nine after ...

The contagion begins its sweep, commuting with workers from farm to farm. It seems like a local problem at first, but eventually crosses borders and oceans to engulf the whole world. This contagion, ...

On October 4, 2018, an Ohio firefighter and a former corporate defense attorney filed a class-action lawsuit representing every American citizen with a certain class of chemicals in their blood — ...

For the first time, a type of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, called prime editing, has been performed in “mini-organs” to correct the mutation causing cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is thought to ...

Dark matter makes up almost 30% of our universe, yet we still aren’t sure exactly what it is. One suggestion is that dark matter is made up of primordial black holes (PBHs), black holes formed in the ...

I think there’s often a lot of misconceptions people have about what it means to know how to program, when actually thinking of a programming language as an actual language makes much more sense.

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