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According to James Lovell, the command module pilot for the Apollo 8 mission, "the moon is essentially grey, no colour; looks like a plaster of Paris." On the same mission, lunar module pilot...

Hiding in the Western and Central Andes of Colombia and Ecuador is the most adorable animal that you will ever see. The olinguito is a newly discovered carnivorous mammal that resides in Central and...

Hello again, dear readers! This issue, we will be exploring the world of Western blotting. Before we do a Western blot, let's get acquainted with some of the basic terms and principles behind this...

A recent study funded by the European Commission and undertaken by analysts at Science-Metrix, a Montreal-based company that assesses science and technology organizations, has concluded that half of all published academic papers become freely...

Research presented at the International Ethological Conference, known as Behaviour 2013, in Newcastle, U.K. earlier this August has shown there may be more to crustacean nervous systems than previously known. Robert Elwood, a researcher...

In a world increasingly driven by the exchange of data over the Internet, the issue of online privacy is never far from the public eye. This is especially true recently, in the wake of...

Welcome back! This issue, we’ll be finishing up the PCR experiment. Last time, we left off with our extracted mouse DNA samples sitting in the fridge. Now, we’re going to thaw the samples out...