A Splash of Color in Philly

Last week the NSTA held their annual National Conference in Philadelphia, PA. This is one of our favorite conferences of the year since it gives us an opportunity to connect with teachers, administrators, and students! We wrote previously about the…

Discovering the Nitoplast

It started with a mystery and then a high-tech search. In the 1990s, Dr. Jonathan Zehr, an ocean ecologist at the University of California, found an eye-catching DNA sequence in the water samples he was studying. Analysis of the sequence…

Epigenetics in Spring: How Nature Wakes Up

Spring is a beautiful season of change. From our perspective we get to enjoy warmer weather, flowers blooming and wildlife returning.  But there’s also tons of change going on beyond the surface! Inside plants and animals, tiny molecular switches control…