Hi! My name is John Sutton. I’m a webcomic artist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. About six years ago, although I’m not a scientist (or even closely related to any scientific field), I started drawing comics about a bungling scientist and his robot sidekick. After pestering my coworkers for weeks

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News for Students Gene editing may push a species of malaria-carrying mosquito to extinction. These new results come from a small-scale laboratory study. Researchers used a genetic engineering tool to make changes to species called Anopheles gambiae

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News A new gene drive may push a species of malaria-carrying mosquito to extinction. In a small-scale laboratory study, the genetic engineering tool caused Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes to stop producing offspring in eight to 12 generations, researchers

Source: Atlas Obscura Located on a small island in the Mississippi River is a laboratory renowned for its world-class research facilities and the high quality of its outputs. Though many civil and hydraulic engineers know of it,… Click here to read more The post Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others,” Alan Watts wrote in the early 1950s, nearly a quarter century before Thomas Nagel’s landmark essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” unlatched the study of