by Stephanie Mitchell edited by Mimi Hang and Ariane Vartanian Every Thanksgiving we gorge ourselves on delicious food and become very sleepy. Inevitably at that point, someone volunteers that it’s the turkey that’s made you …
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2016: The Start of a New… Decade? Part 2
by Gene Chong edited by Ariane Vartanian In 2005, Science magazine published their 125th anniversary issue and posed 25 of the biggest questions “facing science over the next quarter-century”.1 In my previous post, I talked …
2016: The Start of a New… Decade? Part 1
by Gene Chong edited by Ariane Vartanian The coming of spring, like New Years Day, leads many of us to ruminate over what we did and did not accomplish in the past year and to …
Digging Deep: Celebrating the Gem Beneath Our Feet
by Ian Gunsolus edited by Mimi Hang and Ariane Vartanian Did you know that there are nearly 70,000 different types of soil in the United States?1 With the abundance of natural beauty that we see …
The Green Nanotechnology Revolution
by Gustavo Dominguez edited by Ariane Vartanian When we talk about sustainability in chemistry, one thing we have to think about is how the chemicals we use in our experiments may affect the environment. The …
Light Can Do Way More Than Bend: Part 2
by Juli Troiano edited by Ariane Vartanian For the first post that I wrote for the blog 2 years ago, I discussed some of the cool things that focused, high intensity light from a laser …
Sustainable Lamps Powered by Algae
by Joe Buchman edited by Ariane Vartanian Have you ever thought about lighting up the streets using algae? I know I certainly hadn’t before researching for this post, but there are some scientists who have …
Mimicking Nature’s Nanotechnology: From a butterfly wing to anti-counterfeit technologies
by Merve Doğangün edited by Ariane Vartanian Have you ever wondered where the inspiration behind new technologies comes from? We don’t have to go too far to find out; it is enough to just look …
Keeping Our Food Safe – Nanomaterial Style
by Laura Olenick edited by Ariane Vartanian From reading this blog, you may know that nanomaterials are becoming more and more prevalent in the products that we use on a regular basis. What you may …
The Mystery of the Surface: Your Kitchen Table is Far From Simple
by Ariane Vartanian The last time I played with Google Street View, I saw my car in the driveway and could practically count the teeth on a jack o’ lantern on my porch. I thought, …