Say good-bye to Blu-ray. The CD of the future is coming soon.
Cancer protection in people with Down syndrome could someday lead to an anti-cancer vitamin.
That bird that keeps pooping on your head? It DOES have a grudge against you!
The top 10 new species of 2008, including a tiny seahorse and bacteria [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Lucy K.’
May 22, 2009
Vengeful birds, an anti-cancer vitamin, new species, and more!
May 15, 2009
Tea, sharks, baboons, Chernobyl and more in this week’s BioBites!
A tea traditionally used in Africa may help control type-2 diabetes.
Network, network, network. It’s one of the best ways to be successful. Even if you’re a baboon.
How can plants manage to survive fallout from Chernobyl? Find out here!
You wouldn’t think a five-ton shark would be hard to find.
Nice guys don’t always finish [...]
May 8, 2009
Can you pay attention long enough for this week’s biobites?
Have trouble paying attention? Help may be on the way.
A genius’ epic failure is worth keeping.
Yeast are going to space.
Happy kids grow up to be healthy adults.
It may not be a space station, but Stephen Colbert gets something named after him.
Stoplights lead to healthier food choices
It turns out that babies are [...]
May 6, 2009
Coolest Science Website Ever (well, almost ever!)
This website www.molecularmovies.com pulls together many of the amazing science animations available on the web. These are great resources for learning, understanding, or even just some good old procrastination. Even when we Lucies don’t understand the videos, we still like watching them! In most cases if you want to know more [...]
April 8, 2009
Baseball and Science
It’s baseball season again! Although, really, the Northeast, it’s always baseball season. And what goes together with baseball better than science? Well, maybe beer, but here’s some science anyway, all from the ever wonderful New York Times.
In honor of opening day, computer-simulated baseball. (No, not fantasy baseball.)
This doctor has [...]
March 2, 2009
Grad School Strikes
As you all know, we Lucies are hard-working grad students. Recently we’ve been a little more hard-working than usual so we haven’t had time for our favorite procrastination past-time, posting to BioBites. Alas, the situation will probably not improve for a few more weeks so bear with us as we try to [...]
February 4, 2009
What does the stimulus mean for Science?
Like the rest of the US, scientists are looking to see what piece of the stimulus package we’ll get. Under recent administration policies science funding has stagnated. When Obama mentioned science in his inaugural address scientists across the US cheered. Now that the new HUGE stimulus package is appearing, what does it [...]
January 30, 2009
More Evidence that Google is AWESOME!
More reasons to love Google, some great news about your energy bill, and more. Check it out in
this week’s BioBites!
January 26, 2009
The March of the Penguins
One of the great aspects of science is that most of the time the news is good. New discoveries are constantly being made that improve life for humans and animals. Sadly, sometimes the news is not so good. In this story about emperor penguins, as with most other stories about global [...]
January 21, 2009
YouTube for Scientists: DNATube
We scientists also like to procrastinate by checking out cool videos online, but sometimes the videos we check out are pretty nerdy. If you’d like to check out some nerdy videos, DNATube is definitely the best place to go. There are AMAZING videos here of all kinds of biological processes, from how DNA [...]
