by Macy Lynn Osborne-Frazier If you watched or heard about the 2024 Oscars, you may know that the movie Oppenheimer […]
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Cancer Alley
by Mariah Jones The year is 1987. The place is a small southern town in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. Within two […]
Continue reading70 Years of the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of DNA
by Rami Major From crime shows tracking down killers to the action movie Rampage with gene-edited predators, DNA and scientific […]
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Publicado en Abril 14, 2022 por Nicole Gadda (English Version) Traducido por Maria X. Cardenas, PhD Muchos hemos tomado antibióticos […]
Continue readingThe 1918 Influenza Pandemic
by Margaret Dedloff Each year, between 10 and 40 million people in the United States get sick with influenza, or […]
Continue readingEl Legado de las Chicas del Radio
Publicado en Noviembre 10, 2022 por Margaret Dedloff (English version) Traducido por Maria X. Cardenas, PhD El radio es un […]
Continue readingThe Legacy of the Radium Girls
by Margaret Dedloff(En Español) Radium is a radioactive metal that can be found naturally in the environment. Radium was discovered […]
Continue readingAlexander Fleming: The Father of Antibiotics
by Nicole Gadda Many of us have taken antibiotics for common bacterial infections like strep throat or pneumonia, but have […]
Continue readingGregor Mendel: The Father of Genetics
By Madison Williams Do you ever wonder how scientists can predict that parents will pass a disease on to their […]
Continue readingDon’t Eat the Ice Cream: The True Story of Typhoid Mary
By Nicole Gadda Do you know the story of Typhoid Mary? Mary Mallon, otherwise known as Typhoid Mary, was born […]
Continue readingHidden Figures in Physics – Carolyn Parker
By Zoe Terwilliger Carolyn Parker was the first African American woman to receive a graduate degree in physics. Carolyn Parker […]
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