The mRNA’s Perilous Journey to the Synapse
From the depths of the cell soma, a humble mRNA makes its journey to fulfil its destiny. Riding on a Transporting Granule, the valiant CaMKII mRNA makes the perilous travel…
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A Cool Career in a Hot Field: Andreas Predicts the Weather and Conveys it with Augmented Reality
intervieweeAndreas Nyholm has a background in geophysics and for almost 10 years he has worked as a weatherman—the kind you see on television every evening. He was headhunted on live…
Communicating Science – A conversation with Massimiano Bucchi
On May 16 The Science Basement had the chance to interview Massimiano Bucchi, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Trento and editor of the international journal Public Understanding…
Ghosts in the universe
It may be that not all black holes have formed in the usual way: massive stars collapsing under their gravitational pressure. During the Big Bang, large enough inhomogeneities in matter…
Science in the Desert: Interview with Former Array Maintenance Manager at the World’s Largest Telescope ALMA – SCS Interview #2
Dr. David Rabanus worked as array maintenance manager for the world's largest telescope, ALMA, in the Atacama desert in Chile. ALMA observes parts of the night sky that regular telescopes…
A Field Note
A short documentary film about lake ice measurements on Lake Pitkäjärvi in Nuuksio, Finland. This was an experiment in using documentary in science communication and presenting field work in nature.
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The Invisible Patient: Women’s Health in Medicine & Research
Medical research and practice have historically focused on male physiology, leading to significant gaps in understanding the female body and the potential sex-specific differences in disease presentation and response to…
Fit for model (Lost in Translation ep.4)
Lost in translation is a comic about two researchers, Jargon and Jumble, getting into linguistic miscommunications due to the different meanings attached to certain words in their work life as…
A look at an anatomy class in the 17th century
Have you ever wonder what a medical class looked like in medieval times? Wonder no more!
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