Fire Safety Unveiled
The Science Behind the Fine “Fire Safety woke me up this morning,” my freshman year roommate indignantly told me one afternoon. “And they fined me for my hot pot!” A hot pot? Why would she get fined...
Heat Loss from the Head: A Myth Debunked
Why Winter Hats are Unnecessary, Yet Nice to Have Around I, for one, gladly admit that sunny Southern California has no justifiable reason to complain about its annual rainy day, specifically in relation to...
Different Drinks, Different “Drunks”?
It’s a commonly held belief that different kinds of alcohol have different kinds of effects on our mood and behavior: tequila makes us dance on tables and perform karaoke songs we don’t know; vodka makes...
The Lie that Could Not Be Cloned
In 1979, University of Geneva Professor Karl Illmensee announced the success of a groundbreaking experiment: the cloning of mice from early embryos. Since 1952, scientists had repeatedly tried and failed to...
Slippery Surfaces Promise to Make Hospitals’ Infection Rates Fall to the Ground
A team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering developed a new material with the potential to prevent some of the 721,800 infections estimated to develop annually in U.S....
One New Liver, Please
The Advent of 3D Bioprinting Patients in desperate need of organ transplant certainly do not have the odds in their favor. Of the 123,000 patients currently awaiting a life-saving donation, less than...
Freedom from the Ghosts of Our Past
Just as dogs learn to recognize that the sound of a can opening means dinner, we too make emotional connections with sights, sounds, smells and other sensory experiences. Though sometimes pleasant, as with the...