Biology
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Butterfly in the Sky…Can We Keep It?
Sometimes as parents we say things to our children that unintentionally lead us down paths we had no idea we’d…
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Tired of eating food? Here’s an alternative
If you could get all of the nourishment your body needed by consuming a carefully proportioned mix of vitamins and…
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Sharper knives for sharper images, or, the ‘Deli slicer’ portion of your biology PhD
I’m doing a bunch of staining experiments at work right now. That means that, hopefully, in the next couple weeks…
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A Little Bit of the Bubbly: Science Experiment Time
We recently had a fun science experiment at our school here (have I mentioned that we homeschool?). We used bubbles…
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Write this in DNA
Sometimes it seems like the “Age of Synthetic Biology” is actually the “Age of Writing Great Works of Literature Into…
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The Perot Museum: An Oasis of Science
With all of the controversy surrounding Texas schools teaching Creationism (including Young Earth Creationism which teaches that the Earth is…
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Gretchen Feldman’s Cancer Paintings
Last week on a trip to Washington, D.C, I took a little excursion up to Baltimore. Once I was done…
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Body Art Science Mingle
Last week the California Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Gladstone Institutes, hosted a “five-day biosciences festival” called Brilliant!Science. CalAcademy…
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