By Nadia Jaber I was 18 when I found out that I was one of millions on the path to cardiovascular disease. My high cholesterol levels left me to begrudgingly curb my cheese addiction and, even worse, work out. We all know that eating right and […]
In college, I spent two years of my life asking: when two species of wasps mate, why do their hybrid offspring die? To try and figure this out, I watched wasps have sex, counted the eggs they laid after mating, counted any adults that survived […]
Vitamin D. We can get this essential compound by eating vitamin D-rich foods, or by exposing our skin to sunlight. But most of us don’t have enough of it, and the reasons for this vary. Is it necessary to supplement when we are vitamin D […]
by Maryam Zaringhalam, @thisisartlab Given that artists + scientists employ similar approaches to developing their work and that this work is often presented in very similar mediums, it has eluded me for quite some time why art and science are generally thought of as being […]
If you place a ball on the top of a perfectly symmetric hill, it shouldn’t move. At least, not if you’re a theoretical physicist. In practice, we all know the ball will ‘choose’ a side. So, nature breaks symmetry. How do physicists deal with symmetry […]
By Jeanne Garbarino, @JeanneGarb Last week Rockefeller’s Science Outreach Program piloted a new workshop series for science teachers in collaboration with the Harlem DNA Lab of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Led by Harlem DNA Lab manager Melissa Lee, a dedicated group of science […]
