Science Geek Alert

01/09/2019

This is amazing news! 1 step closer to a cure!
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/researchers-redesign-cancer-busting-protein-without-side-effects

In animal experiments, computer-designed variant of interleukin-2 improves the natural version

01/08/2019

When Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, placed uranium salts atop photographic plates in 1896, he accidentally discovered radioactivity, for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903

12/26/2018

Scientists have figured out an incredible method for making it rain in the Sahara Desert, and if we went ahead with something so grand, it could produce all the power the world currently uses more than four times over.

12/26/2018

this year we discovered mitochondrial DNA can actually be passed down by males!

12/17/2018

For the first time in human history, gene-editing has been performed to fix a mutation for an inherited disease in embryos

10/22/2018

Did you know that lasers can get 'trapped' in a waterfall?

10/15/2018

A research team on Spain's Canary Islands just broke the distance record for transmitting entangled photons at 144 kilometers!
http://www.keepssweetmemoirs.com/its-time-to-visit-canary-islands-now/index.php

As on most of the Canary Islands, once you get away from Gran Canaria’s built-up south-coast beach resorts, you’ll find an astonishing landscape that combines barren outcrops with cool pine forests, and sunken calderas with sky-skimming ocean views. There’s no better way to discover this outdo...

10/15/2018

Did you know that the average person has enough DNA in their body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back 17 times?!

09/30/2018

09/26/2018

Scary stuff...

Scientists have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, a growing global threat as menacing as drug-resistant microbes. Little is known about the mechanisms leading to tolerance, a strategy that makes bacteria 'indifferent' to antibiotics and almost 'un-killable,' which results in c...

09/26/2018

Plants are much less passive than they seem

Scientists showed that plants are much less passive than they seem by revealing the secret workings of their threat communication systems.