From Neanderthal to the Nobel Prize: A Paleogenetic Story

Each year five Nobel prizes are awarded in physiology/medicine, chemistry, physics, literature, and peace to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to society”. Winners of the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology have transformed how…

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…