What's the gist of pollination? Think of pollination as plant sex by proxy. Or if this makes you uncomfortable, think of it as the transfer of pollen (male sperm) to the female part of the…
The secrets in the chromosome numbers
Why does our genome have so many blank spaces? According to some calculations, up to 80% of our DNA does not code for proteins or functional RNAs, or has any known regulatory functions. DNA is…
Traveling back in time to discover the machines…
Psychology from the 1920s, 1960 statistics, today’s smartphones and tomorrow’s energy-efficient houses. As surprising as it might be, the common denominator of all these things is the Artificial Intelligence. Long before AI was an official…
Human ignorance is more deadly than any weapon
Much has been said about GMOs - we don't need another article explaining us why the GMOs are not the evil that will put an end to the world as we know it, because we…
"New call for grants" or "The hunger games"…
Every year, there is at least one new call for proposals from the big institutions awarding grants for scientific research. In Europe, some of these are the Horizon 2020 program, IRC, Marie Curie, LIFE…
"Batman begins" or the Shape Memory Polymers
Remember in the movie "Batman begins" the super cool memory shape cape he had? If you don't remember that, then may be you should revise the movie, but just to give you a clue -…
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Scientists can be very full of themselves (or rather of their own research topic) creatures. I consider myself a scientist (among other things). So I suppose I need to live up to the expectations?! Hence,…