Are you kicking back relaxing for your summer break? In past blog posts, we featured science-themed podcasts, books, and citizen science projects that can keep you busy when you're out of school. In this post, we're going to help you…

Are you kicking back relaxing for your summer break? In past blog posts, we featured science-themed podcasts, books, and citizen science projects that can keep you busy when you're out of school. In this post, we're going to help you…
Microbial handprint from article on Bored Panda website. <available online> Last week, we teamed up with the American Society for Microbiology to create some Agar Art at the Petworth Neighborhood Library in Washington, DC. Agar art is a STEAM activity…
Read More Edvotek in the Community: Agar Art with the American Society for Microbiology
Visualization of chromosomes dividing Now, in our last blog posts, we talked about about the different steps and end points for mitosis and meiosis. Remember, both of these processes focus on the division of cells, but at different times and…
Read More Keeping up with the Chromosomes, Part 3: Meiosis vs. Mitosis
In our last installment about chromosomes, we discussed mitosis, the key process that maintains the proper chromosome number in somatic cells. But what happens when organisms want to reproduce? In organisms that reproduce sexually, or through the combination of genetic…