A Bottle of Antimatter
Antimatter pegs my geek meter pretty hard, especially when it’s in the real world. [A] research collaboration at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, has managed, 38 times, to...
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Two of my favorite things, together; science humor and cats! I, for one, welcome our Chemistry Cat overlords… Quickmeme.com has a bunch of ‘em collected for our perusing pleasure and there are...
View ArticleThe Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we’ve been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up our...
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