All of our blog topics in biology and their related topics from the foundation to applied biology concepts and ideas.
If you happen to be a female, you can likely relate to unusual cravings for chocolate (or other “bad for you” foods) once a month due to your menstrual cycle. Facial blemishes, crankiness, and cramps also go hand-in-hand with this period. However, new research shows that this might not be the only time of the …
One factor I encountered again and again when I was working as a first responder was cause and effect. Whether a result was profitable or costly, it seemed like there was a whole team of people with no other purpose in life than to research why a particular outcome came to pass. There was even …
Ever get tired of carrying around important thumb drives (and then forgetting where you left them)? What about headphones? Are they really comfortable to wear? And what about typing an e-Mail to your professor? Wouldn’t it be easier to just think what you want to say to her? What if you could interface with technology …
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. The news is always buzzing with GMO issues. Farmers accuse evil corporations of poisoning our food, CEOs announce they’re trying to feed the hungry and scientists develop goats that produce spider webs (you read that correctly – …
When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington of Jupiter, Fla., designed a project for her school’s science fair, little did she know she would make a breakthrough that would radically change the way scientists think about the venomous, highly invasive lionfish, or that it would get her cited in a published, peer-reviewed study on the subject. The lionfish, …
If you are familiar with my personal blog, you’ll recall that this past summer I took a stab at growing luffas for the first time ever. This picks up where that posts left off at: the harvest and how to process luffa. There are lots of places and advice you can go to on the …