Will my baby be healthy? How can I protect it? Is my child safe? For the 125 million pregnant women at risk of contracting malaria there is no need to imagine, this is the reality they face everyday — Tara Bracken Winner of the 2016 University of Georgia 3 Minute Thesis, Tara Bracken speaks about
Welcome to Star Wars week here at the Athens Science Observer. To help celebrate May the 4th – Star Wars Day – we wanted to take a look at the real life science of that galaxy far far away. When Kanjiklub and the Guavian Death Gang boarded the Eravana, the three most beloved characters in
Origami is a craft that transforms the simplest materials into intricate works of art. Precise folds and careful planning draw fantastic creatures from an otherwise unremarkable sheet of paper: cranes, dragons, lilies, and…scaffolds for complex nanomachinery? Through careful engineering and clever implementation of standard molecular techniques, scientists have found a way to fold long DNA
Over the course of the year 2005, nearly 9,500 people lay in bed with arsenic coursing through their veins. They had watched as the toxic drug was slowly forced into their bloodstream, hopefully through a glass syringe; as it is dissolved in propylene glycol, a close relative of antifreeze, the drug melts plastic syringes used
