When I think of the Danish company LEGO, the first image that comes to mind is their classical LEGO brick, and I…
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Early Career Research Community The not-so-innocent LEGO brickRead more
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Brain Why do children believe in Santa? PLOS ONE studies examine how children conceive truthRead more
How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus? Evidence shows you were probably about five years old. But why…
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PLoS Pathogens and Defense: Speakers recap from the 6th EMBO MeetingRead more
By Meredith Wright From September 5-8, scientists converged on Birmingham, UK for the 6th European Molecular Biology Organization Meeting. EMBO is an…
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Academia Celebrating 10 years of Athena SWAN Charter advancing women in scienceRead more
By Sara Carvalhal Gender inequality in science has been in the news lately, particularly around the fall-out of Sir Tim Hunt’s biased…
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Biology Just Skin Deep — Your Immune System at the SurfaceRead more
The skin is the human body’s largest organ. At 1.8 square meters for the average adult, skin covers about as much area…
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Academia Scientists Behaving Badly (On Social Media)Read more
By Brett Buttliere It is generally undisputed that Twitter and other social information exchange websites are changing the landscape of science and…
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Development Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges for the Post-2015 Development EraRead more
This article is being cross-listed with the Harvard graduate student publication Signal to Noise, Special Edition on Infectious Disease. Health equity is based…
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Artificial Intelligence “Synthetics” – Berkeley Scientific’s Spring 2014 IssueRead more
Berkeley Scientific publishes undergraduate research, features articles, and interviews with UC Berkeley professors spanning many areas of science. In the Spring 2014 issue…
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Bacteria Genome editing just got a lot easierRead more
This post is cross-posted with Berkeley Scientific Journal If you’ve recently taken a glimpse at the front page of any major science…
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