Imagine a botanist given the task of identifying trees on 3.5% of…
Solar lighting – making a difference to the world’s poorest people.
In many developing countries kerosene is a common source of fuel. It’s…
Electricity from Heat: Thermoelectric Generators
As energy demands are rapidly increasing with developing countries like China and…
From Canaries to Jigsaws: Complexity in the life of a bio-indicator
If you’re familiar with history around mining and coal extraction, you’re familiar…
I’m an alien….
Plants, animals, and any living thing can move from their places of…
Bits of Blue-sky Scientific Computing
This content is being cross-posted to my blog, Synthetic Daisies. For my first…
Eternal youth, cancer and telomeres
This is an edited version of a post in my blog –…
A diagram of a cell, “Up-Goer Five” style
Participating in this year’s SciFund course got me thinking about ways to…
Fireside Science
Welcome to Fireside Science: SciFund Challenge’s Guide to Life, the Universe, and…