by Laura Olenickedited by Joe Buchman Animals evolve strong defenses against predators. Predators evolve to better kill and catch their prey. Plants evolve defenses against insects. Insects evolve defenses against plants. We evolve defenses against …
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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 Cautionary Tale of DDT – Biomagnification, Bioaccumulation, and Research Motivation
by Laura Olenick We perform many different kinds of experiments in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology—some that you might expect (like making new kinds of nanoparticles), and some that you might not (like feeding nanoparticles …
Teamwork Wins! Why Science Is Not an Individual Sport.
by Laura Olenick When you think about a scientist, what picture pops into your head? I’ll bet you’re picturing a lone scientist with wild hair, toiling away on some world-changing problem in lab. You know …