Scientists’ goal is to find a treatment that will help prevent people from getting Alzheimer’s disease or stop it from getting worse in people that already have it.
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Video games have been shown to be a great learning platform. Through gaming, players can learn important life skills like communication, coordination, and problem-solving. Video games can also be a great resource for learning in the classroom.
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Ever wondered how grocery bags, tires, paints, non-stick pans, face shields and water pipes are related to each other?
They are all made from polymers!
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President John F. Kennedy himself said on May 25th, 1961, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”1 During this time, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and dreamers accomplished many amazing goals, such as landing on the moon!
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Females and males have many biological differences. But surprisingly, women have been left out of a lot of human research. What happens when women are excluded? And how can we make change?
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Depending on where you live, this summer, you might be seeing and hearing something you’ve never encountered before!
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Ocean acidification is any change in ocean water that can be harmful to the plants and animals in the ocean. Ocean acidification causes shellfish and coral to lose the building blocks to make their protective shells.
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Research is one of the most reliable ways to answer questions we have about ourselves and about the world around us. Understanding and finding the answers to our questions is important because it can help us create new medicines, technologies, and resources.
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Happy birthday Dr. Ellen Ochoa - former astronaut, first Hispanic woman in space, former director of Johnson space center and STEM advocate.
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Did you know that scientists didn’t discover what DNA looked like until the 1950s? Contributions by many scientists researching the structure of DNA led to our understanding of genetics today.
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In 2020, one of the safest, quickest, and most effective ways to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic was to use previous research to create the mRNA vaccine.
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