Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?
Recently, Dr. Roger Tsien earned a Nobel prize for his work in creating a stunning array of colorful, glowing proteins. Not only are they, like, […]
chemistry
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]
Morphine plus pot equals, like, no pain, man.
From the trenches of the War on Drugs comes a New Scientist pharmaceutical report that’s bound to have doctors and pain patients alike going “Duuuude.” […]
Bad choices and birth control.
LiveScience makes clear that sometimes, contraception isn’t the best decision. Or, well, doesn’t help you make the best decisions… because birth control pills befuddle women’s […]
Better than Shinola.
Dailytech.com is smiling (or is it just gas?) over the latest trick we’ve gotten E. coli to perform. Geneticists have altered the food-poisoning germ so […]
Learn more with sleep-in-a-pill!
OK, I’m overstating for effect, but it’s not hard to imagine someone taking this discovery in Science News and marketing it that way. After all, […]
Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
Too clean for comfort (or “We’re composed of membranes too.”).
Nature recently published a story that should shock the clean freaks among us. Researchers have found that common disinfectants lower fertility and cause birth defects […]