August 2021

My first science lesson remains etched in my memory some thirty years later. After a brief introduction to the importance of observation and experimentation, our teacher weighed a sheet of magnesium in a small crucible before lighting it…

Image: Human knee, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Blausen Medical Medical Gallery 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI: 10.15347 / wjm / 2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. In my last two articles…

The intelligence community's report on the origin of COVID-19 neither blamed the Wuhan Institute of Virology nor exonerated the Chinese lab.After 90 days of “redoubling” efforts to bring the world closer to how the pandemic began, the…

These days there is a subscription box for almost everything. You can't beat the convenience and pleasure of getting things you love, or things you didn't even know you wanted, delivered to your door every week or every month for a fixed…

The bitter culture wars over teaching evolution in public schools dominated headlines throughout the 2000s, in large part because of the Bush administration's ease with evangelicals who rejected science. on evolution.…

Research in biology and chemistry: Fungal populations, DNA protective chromatin and plastic ingredients This summer, three undergraduates get their hands dirty with scientific research: growing mushrooms, studying yeast DNA, and…

Welcome to Pocket Science: An overview of recent research from Husker scientists and engineers. For those who want to quickly learn the “what”, “what then” and “what now” of Husker research. What? Although the older…

Food is, of course, fundamental to life. But in a perhaps ironic twist, the things we eat fuel some of the greatest threats to the survival of humanity. A growing body of evidence has shown that our industrialized food…

A dream-eating Japanese elephant-like creature called baku, right, is one of the mythical creatures in "Cryptozoo". Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures "Utopias never work." The visually stunning new animated film "Cryptozoo”, Which…

Without question, Teladoc Health (TDOC) has served investors well during the Wall Street rally out of the coronavirus bear market. TDOC share started 2020 at just under $ 84 per share. He ended the extraordinary year in history at…