We chose one of the hottest weeks on record to tour some of DC's most iconic sites and to investigate some of its most diverse and under-the-radar inhabitants. We used Edvotek's Kit S-30 (How Clean is the Water We Drink…
Monumental Microbes
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Microbial ecology without the microbes.
Today at daycare there was the dreaded sign warning parents that Streptococcus pyogenes (the bacteria that causes strep throat) had been found on the premises. This got me thinking about bacteria cultures...and jello. Bacteria can be grown in petri dishes…
Tips on Making Bacterial Slides
Thanks to Jordan M. one of our summer interns from Mckinley Technology High School for writing this guest post. Making bacteria slides is messy but can be fun! Imagine seeing all the tiny bacteria that grows that nobody gets to…
When Science and Art Combine
The term STEAM may be only a decade old but the powerful chemistry of science and art goes way back. Here are two of our favorite examples that we came across while preparing our latest STEAM kit Living Art. In…
