Microbial mania on Mars
At the Kennedy Space Center, NASA is finalizing preparations to launch the Mars 2020 rover in July. One of the aims of the Mars 2020 mission is to search for […]
Category Archives: Technology
Can you hear me now? Good!
“Tweedly tweedly TWEEE“ “Badum dum dum” “That was good everyone, but can we do one more take?..” Working at a recording studio for a year was the dream job for […]
Plant Cells, an Unculturable Mystery
The simplest unit in biology is the cell. This central tenet has remained true since the coining of the term ’cell’ in 1665 by Robert Hooke. Cells have enabled multicellular […]
Sunflowers to the Rescue!
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 […]
Blinded by the Blue Light
”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 […]
The Cartography of the Genome
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, […]
Littering 2.0
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 […]
Big Science, Small Satellites
Is it a star? A moon? A comet even? No, it’s a satellite! NASA broadly defines a satellite as a moon, planet, or machine that orbits a planet or star. […]
Cosmic Farming: A Step Towards a Sustained Stay in Space
We talk about astronauts going on space missions to unravel the possibility of life beyond Earth. In fact, with NASA and SpaceX’s race to Mars, it is not long before […]
The Cold Truth About Cryopreservation
Recently, I was in the lab doing some routine work with cells. In order to start growing my own stock of cells I took a small vial out of a […]
