How Do Big Sharks Beat Cancer?
Large sharks are known to heal rapidly and resist cancer. Could humans possibly learn how sharks do it and copy them?
A Better Predictor of Cervical Cancer
By Cathy Seiler January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. What do you know about cervical cancer? Probably the only time you…
Frequent Rainstorms Predicted with Climate Change
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore If you live in California, you might recall the powerful winter rainstorm of 2014, dubbed the…
STEAM: Adding the Art to Science
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, ART, and Mathematics. The goal of STEAM is to help engage with and explain science through art.
Spacecraft Could Clean Up Trash Orbiting Earth
There is a lot of trash orbiting earth. More than 170 million pieces and counting, in fact. The pieces of…
Seized Ivory Traced to Recently Slaughtered Elephants
Strong demand for ivory has decimated both forest and savannah elephant populations across Africa by about two-thirds over the past years.
Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino, former space shuttle astronaut and current professor at Columbia University, shares his path with us in his book, Spaceman.
Flower Power: The Physics of Pollination
By Marie Davey @biophilesblog Pollination. The word brings to mind the droning buzz of fat yellow and black bumblebees bouncing…
Zebrafish Fight Club Winners and Losers
Much like in Fight Club, “Where Is My Mind?” is a fitting theme song for zebrafish: after 24 hours they…
How Nature Creates the Color Blue
Sometimes nature uses physics instead of pigment to create the color blue. Radwanul Hasan Siddique explains how this is accomplished.