Author: David Meshoulam
Teaching science to young adults is a challenging experience. Students generally enter class feeling one of two emotions: “Science is important, I love it, let’s go!” or “Science is irrelevant, I hate it, let’s go home!” The job of the science teacher is to teach science so that all students may appreciate its beauty, complexity, relevance, and intellectual import.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
If they aren’t out investigating gruesome murders as depicted in popular crime shows, what exactly do forensic anthropologists do? Generally speaking, a forensic anthropologist is responsible for deciphering details such as age, height, gender, ethnicity, time and cause of death, and other characteristics of skeletal remains associated with a legal case.
Author: Emma Loewe
Increasingly stringent legislation on chemical releases is forcing businesses to become more environmentally aware. EPA regulations concerning lead, mercury and greenhouse gas emissions have increased demand for environmental consultants. These specialists test various aspects of a company’s environmental impact in order to identify potential problems or breaches in government regulations.
Author: Yeva Ragauskayte
Snorkeling and scuba diving in coral reefs, trekking through the jungle, climbing icy slopes—do you see yourself partaking in any of these adventures in pursuit of knowledge? This is exactly what field assistants do when they help conduct research in the field. Many research studies do not just take place in a laboratory, but also in outside natural environments.
Author: Emma Loewe
A team of Michigan State University scientists has published their findings on the ecosystem response to China’s Wenchun earthquake. This marks the first multi-year field study conducted on the environmental response to a natural disaster.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
Affecting over 300 million lives across the globe, type 2 diabetes is a condition whose prevalence is daunting and incessantly on the rise. Lifestyle changes are unfortunately only effective at slowing the progress of the disease, but not at eliminating its symptoms entirely. However, thanks to the efforts of an international research team comprised of Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers, a therapeutic solution involving drug mimicry may be on the horizon.
Author: Maria Zagorulya
Dr. Ronnie Guillet, M.D., Ph.D., is a neonatologist at Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital. She also teaches and researches neonatal brain development and injury at the University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY. Dr. Guillet earned her Bachelor’s degree in biology at SUNY at Albany, her Ph.D. in biophysics at University of Rochester and her M.D. at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
Mrs. Sandra Eberhardt-Page is currently a Biology teacher at Archbishop O'Leary Highschool in Edmonton, Alberta. She attended Concordia and the University of Alberta and holds a Bachelor of Education. She has been teaching for 17 years.
Author: Maria Zagorulya
At the most critical times they come to your rescue. They always know what to do. Never afraid, never hesitant, they quickly size up the scene, assess the situation, make a firm decision and act immediately: the adeptness is astonishing. You trust them with your life. Skillful, confident and always prepared, paramedics are the superheroes of today.
With the FIFA World Cup now in full swing, Brazil’s government has allocated extra funding to scientific studies in physics. Years of preparatory investment stand behind the FIFA World Cup, and Brazil is funneling its ensuing economic boost into bringing the nation’s top game in both the soccer field and scientific fields. Due to a history of limited funding, emphasis was traditionally placed on theoretical studies instead of more costly experimental research. Not until recently did Brazil achieve a near even split between the two domains. In preparation for the World Cup, the government implemented a four-fold increase in science funding through deliberate monetary investment over the last ten years.
Author: Maria Zagorulya
Like preschoolers looking for minute differences between two similar pictures on a worksheet, scientists have been working on differentiating between active and inactive neutrophils involved in the immune response. Only recently, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have created anti-inflammatory drugs targeted specifically at active neutrophilic cells that have gone out of control.
Author: Aiman Faruqi
“Since the discovery of the atom, chemistry has tried to explain phenomena at the atomic level. This motivated the development of theories that could predict molecular structure and behavior. Due to the immensely small size of atoms, however, experimental techniques have trouble seeing these details—thus computational chemistry stepped in to directly simulate the properties of very small things,” says Dr. Paul Zimmerman, a computational chemist at the University of Michigan.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
The 21st century has witnessed successful light, sound, and heat cloaking. Now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has accomplished a similarly unbelievable feat – unfeelability cloaking, or hiding a small object from physical detection with an elastic device.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
Dr. Jeff McIntyre initially completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Alberta. At the turn of the century, however, Dr. McIntyre began pursuing a new passion. He attained his Doctor of Chiropractic at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto and later received a certificate in Graston technique at CMCC and a certificate in Medical Acupuncture at McMaster University. He now applies his diverse skills to developing personalized chiropractic treatment programs for his patients at Park Place Chiropractic in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
Author: Anastasiya Maryukova
Nadezda (Nadia) Maryukova, a former mathematics professor at the Bryansk State University for over twenty years and a present-day private tutor, believes that a deep interest and passion for the subject are the beginning requirements to become a professor.
Author: Ria Foye
From the moment of conception until the time of death, there is no doubt that nearly all physical features of the body undergo change. For instance, bone lengths and teeth surfaces: the length of a newborn’s spine is clearly shorter than that of an adolescent while similarly over time, teeth wear down and surface patterns become unique to one individual. While these and many other body parts are continuously undergoing change, there is one bodily characteristic that remains constant throughout a lifetime - the specific ridge patterns that constitute a fingerprint.
Author: Maria Zagorulya
Could we be one step closer to the fountain of youth? In a recent study, scientists at the University of California Los Angeles found that activating a specific gene in key organ systems appears to slow down aging. Upon activation of this gene in fruit fly intestines, the team saw a 30 percent increase in their lifespans. This suggests that delaying aging in the whole body could be achieved remotely by turning on a gene in a single organ system.
Author: Belinda Ongaro
Have a headache? Pop an Advil. Back pain? Pop an Advil. Existential crisis? Pop an Advil.
Jokes aside, this seems to have become the mantra of modern medicine. But how often do we take the time to investigate the causes of our ailments before hastily suppressing them with pharmaceutical drugs?
Author: Maria Zagorulya
I went to undergrad at the University of Toronto, so I did my Bachelor’s of Science at the University of Toronto and then I did my Master’s of Science degree, also at the University of Toronto and then things get strange. I went to the University of Paris in France, and I was in a graduate program there for about a year and a half but I ran out of money for one thing and also the lifestyle was a little bit too much, I wasn’t sleeping because I was staying awake in Paris every night.
Author: Emma Loewe
The Triangulum Project, an initiative that showcases cutting-edge sustainable innovations, may have the answer. The project will lead the EU’s Smart Cities and Communities Initiative to make European cities more sustainable by reducing energy consumption, greenhouse emissions, and road congestion. Smart Cities brings together major urban centers, private companies and NGOs to achieve the EU’s 20/20/20 climate action goals. The numbers refer to 20% targets in greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy creation, and energy efficiency improvement.
Author: Maria Zagorulya
Humans are not the only species to experience fatigue and even illness when moving from one time zone to another. The same hormone responsible for causing our internal clocks to fall out of sync with actual time also controls the vertical migration of plankton in the ocean, according to new research published September 25th in the journal Cell. The discovery may fill in one of the missing links in our understanding of the evolution of daily rhythms and sleeping patterns in animals.
