A day in the life: Western blotting
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…
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Boiled Alive
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…
Three zeros
In light of a recent UNAIDS report indicating drops of up to 50 per cent in new HIV infections in some of the most severely…
U of M professor links physical punishment of children to lasting health conditions
An association between the physical punishment of children and chronic health effects has been discovered in one of the first comprehensive studies of physical punishment…
A day in the life: PCR redux
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…
Tasting numbers
Imagine a world where you could see noises and taste words – a place where Thursday is stubborn and the number three is always found…
A day in the life: PCR
Dearest readers, welcome back to another instalment of scientific exploration! Last time, we left off finishing our experiments involving cell culture and drug response. Today,…
Philosophy of science: A very short history
If you’re going to talk about the philosophy of science, it’s important to have some historical background. To help trace a little bit of science’s…
The scientific process
Science produces so many useful technologies and lifts us by our bootstraps out from the domestic drudgeries generations of ancestors were meant to endure; to…
Oil and water: Are science and religion in conflict?
“Science respects the power of the human intellect; religion belittles it,” claims the former Oxford chemist Peter Atkins. Atkins adds, “Religion is armchair speculation well…