Ah, home sweet home. Wait. What is this? This is the Milky Way; it’s a cluster of billions upon billions of stars and planets, solar systems and moons. So, in all reality this is our galactic ‘hood’. This is home. Beautiful, right? Just remember this isn’t uptown Switzerland, more like downtown Los Angeles. The Milky [...]
Oh, don’t worry about the picture; we won’t be going into detail. What I do want to talk about is Bioenergetics. So what does that mean? I know you’re asking yourself. Well, let’s break down the word. Bio, this happens to be an abbreviation of the word Biology, which allows us see that it has [...]
For where we are going today we are going to need to move very quickly; how about one of the fastest manmade objects. First of let’s try Voyager 1, the interplanetary probe launched in 1977 which has reached speeds of up to 62,070 km/h (or for those who aren’t in metric, 38,600 mph). To get where [...]
I thought today I would write to you all about what exactly gene therapy is. It’s been a much talked about topic at my school this year, with it as the one of the three research options for a biology paper, one of the main focuses in biology scholarship, and also a talked about idea [...]
In our increasingly modern world, the idea of sexuality is becoming an increasingly common idea. “Human sexuality is how people experience the erotic and express themselves as sexual beings…” – cited from Wikipedia, Human Sexuality. Oh cool, you’re thinking, I’m going to learn how people get their sexuality! Well, not really. Like all things in biology, there’s no simple answer, [...]
December 18, 2011 in Article, Biology, Chemistry
I’m sure we’ve all seen on TV, the internet, and the newspapers, images of people who have suffered third-degree burns, dog attacks or other which has left them with large scars on their body. That tissue doesn’t typically regrow how it originally was, it carries less or different pigment and typically no hair follicles. This [...]
December 18, 2011 in Article, Biology, Chemistry
We are always looking for new and better ways to use medical drugs, and now this new system is hitting the market: microparticle drug delivery. This is very similar to nanoparticle drug delivery, and the only distinguishing feature of the two is that microparticles are particles best measured in micrometres, while evidently nanoparticles are best [...]
December 18, 2011 in Physics, Space
Over in Korea a rare sight was witnessed not so long ago. Three planets (Venus, Mars, and Jupiter) align along with the Moon in this stunning display. The moon, in its crescent phase is the lowest of the four, then Venus, Mars, and last but not least Jupiter, which can be seen along with the [...]
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