In 2015, Zika virus resulted in a global public health emergency. The epidemic caused severe brain defects in thousands of Brazilian newborns after the virus was transmitted to pregnant mothers […]
The year is 2019; the place, your local grocery store. You, the unwary consumer, wander the aisles on your weekly shopping excursion. Reaching for the milk, you hesitate; “non-GMO” is […]
In July of 2018, the Eisen lab at UC Berkeley published what Michael Eisen described as one of the wackiest discoveries of his career. They discovered a virus that swapped […]
On April 26, 1986, in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, a group of engineers working on the No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accidentally caused one of […]
”Don’t stare at your phone/computer too much, you will hurt your eyes” – we’ve probably all heard this at some point in our lives. Is this true? Does staring at […]
When confronted with the imprecise notion of “sustainability” in agriculture, most people’s thoughts drift to ideas of ecologically-mindful land management practices. I’ll dub these concepts “the classics”: rotate your crops, […]
What is a map? What does it REALLY represent? You might answer a map generally represents the relationships of locations. However, maps have evolved substantially in modern times. For example, […]
Part II of the series exploring plant chemistry through different lenses. Plants are the perfect embodiments of natural selection – they can’t just get up and move; so whatever adversity […]
Like many kids, I dreamt of becoming an astronaut; exploring distant planets and making contact with aliens. With a huge number of planets out there, it’s hard to think we’re […]
If you’ve ventured outdoors in the southeast over the last couple weeks, then you may have noticed that things are looking distinctly…yellow. Everywhere you turn, cars and sidewalks are covered […]
