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How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis
It was a brisk April morning in 1940, and George was in a fix. In his hands were two Nobel Prizes illegally smuggled from Germany, while outside the lab Nazi’s swarmed the streets of Copenhagen....
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Oh, Oh OMG I’m included in Open Lab 2010!
The finalists of Open Lab have been announced. I’m all a-quiver with excitement because I’m included in the list! That means I’m going to be PUBLISHED in an ANTHOLOGY of science writers. Among the list...
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Death of a hive, a science story
Image by By Richard Bartz It was late afternoon, and Aethina could smell a hive in danger. Heavy with eggs she felt compelled to investigate. The scent wafted softly though the hot and hazy air, so...
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Nubia, irrigation and parasitic worms, a tale told by a Mummy
A few months ago I wrote about Ancient Nubians and their antibiotic beer, delivering a dose of tetracycline in every brew. Now bioarcheologist George Armelagos has co-authored a study showing that...
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Fever dreams – the true tale of Richard Spruce
Richard Spruce had seen some strange villages since arriving in South America in 1849, but this one took the cake. It was a ghost town. Every door was shut tight against the hot, humid jungle, while...
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The brewer’s yoke, the domestication of microbes
Something happened when I was spliced, something wrong. Some random event in my chromosomes, I suppose it was. In any event, I wound up lacking. My sister took all the toxin genes, and I was left with...
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