Astronomers believe that nearly every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, have a black hole at their center. Ours happens to be one of many supermassive black holes that are theorized to exist. While their gravity is so intense that not even light can escape them, the effects of a black hole can be observed […] More
CRISPR Gene Drive Resistance Due To Inbreeding And Mutations Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. In a previous article, we discussed how CRISPR is not almighty and that organisms can evolve resistance to the changes made to their genome. The simplest method for them to […] More
How Water Bears Use Glass-Like Coverings To Keep Themselves From Drying Out Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. In studies of how to survive in space and in hostile environments, there is often no better a scientific specimen than the tardigrade, the so-called water bear. […] More
The Creation Of An Electricity-Transferring Cyborg Rose Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. Plants have been used for a lot of purposes over the years. Other than food and decoration, they have helped in creating clothing, lumber for construction, soaps and oils for showers, a […] More
The New Smallest Version of CRISPR-Cas9 Has Been Discovered Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. The other day on Bioscription, we discussed the South Korean Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and their work with CRISPR-Cpf1 in soybeans. Today, the same organization has released a study […] More
A New And Worse Threat To Bees Is Steadily Emerging Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. A popular and pressing issue currently in agriculture is the issue of bees and their fate in a modernizing world. Both for domesticated honey bees, who appear to be […] More
tSE 038 – Shaughnessy Naughton, founder of the pro-science PAC 314 Action! [iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5086235/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/standard/tdest_id/466777″ height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Hosts: Natalie Newell (Skeptical Parenting) and Dan Broadbent (A Science Enthusiast)! Watch us LIVE on YouTube for parts of the podcast:https://youtu.be/cFtz_qMsE2A (with Miles) and https://youtu.be/s3v7kcfqAso (intro/GoTW/extended outtake)! Sponsor: Fuck it. God of […] More
What Does A Trump Presidency Mean For Science In America? To answer this question up-front: Nothing good. Also, we’re all screwed. Might as well put that out there first as well. The “Positives” There have already been reactions across the scientific spectrum from a variety of fields and very few of them are optimistic about […] More
tSE 021 – Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist & Author New to podcasts? Subscribe on Stitcher, iTunes, or on the podcast’s homepage. Be like James, Alice, the trio of Michaels, Kris, Sarah, Janet, and Amanda: Become a patron at patreon.com/tSEpodcast! Hosts: Natalie Newell (Skeptical Parenting) and Dan Broadbent (A Science Enthusiast)! Login to access this episode’s […] More
Fish Need Vaccinations Too: Fish Farming and Aquaculture Delving into the depths of newly published science in the field of biotechnology, welcome to Bioscription. A major concern related to the ever-increasing population of humanity globally is the also increasing amount of overfishing and over-usage of some environments for agriculture. The response to the former has […] More
A Science Enthusiast’s Ark Encounter: Deck 2 If you missed Part 1 of my trip to the Ark Encounter, you can catch up by reading it or listening to Episode 008 (Part 1) or Episode 009 (Part 2) of the Science Enthusiast Podcast! I tried to cram everything into just two posts here, but if […] More
A Science Enthusiast’s Ark Encounter: Part 1 You can listen to the first half of my Ark Encounter in the latest episode of The Science Enthusiast Podcast, and also read Part 2 of the Encounter! If you follow the page at all, you probably are aware that I spent a few days last week down […] More
