Today we’re taking a look at some good old fashioned mad science. While there are actually serious research questions being examined in these studies, it doesn’t change the fact that there have been multiple studies where scientists went out and created glow in the dark animals. Green Fluorescent Protein IN 2008, Green Fluorescent Protein was […]
I’ve spent most of this week writing about science for kids. So for a change of pace, today we’re looking at some naughty science acronyms. We are all very mature scientists who would never giggle upon realizing that the acronym is something a little risqué. Dirty jokes about Uranus are of course rather well known, […]
Today we’re moving over to biology, because chemists definitely don’t have a monopoly on being silly. I’ve already shared some funny NMR terminology, so today the fruit fly geneticists get to have their turn. Fruit flies (drosophila melanogaster) are a very popular organism for genetic studies because you can get so many generations so quickly […]