Space Science Part 2: Interstellar Inventions

Turns out there’s a lot in space. These medical technologies didn’t make it into the first post but are too exciting to skip writing about. Anyone who's watched a space travel movie knows that it’s important to be prepared for…

Space Science Part 1: Meta-galactic Medicines

Maybe it’s was seeing the Perseid meteor show this summer or the new space dramas on my streaming watchlist. Maybe it was recently hearing that microbiologists found bacteria had lived 3 years outside the Internationals Space Station. Or maybe it’s just the…

Emmett Chappelle and the invention of the “firefly” bioluminescence assay

In these last days of summer, I’ve been having fun catching (and releasing) the fireflies that appear every night in the woods near our house. It's only recently that I learned that these flashing bugs were the inspiration behind ATP…