Scientific Rhodes

With flu season in full swing, I thought it was time to get back to this blog’s original purpose. I’ve had a running list of smaller topics related to viruses and vaccines that are worth talking about but are not long enough for a full post in-and-of themselves. Now that I’ve accumulated enough topics, I can share them. And with good quality, factual information about vaccination becoming harder to acquire, I believe I have a duty to talk about this. So without further ado… O

Forgive my hiatus, I’ve been dealing with some personal issues. If you’ve been paying attention to the news recently, you might have heard a few famous tech CEOs, particularly Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, discussing the possibility of putting data centers in Earth orbit. As the explosion of AI technology has necessitated more data centers to process the required data, it has put strain on energy grids and water resources in order to power and cool these newly constr

In my previous post , I touched on how modern drug discovery works and how it sometimes intersects with premodern medicines. I didn’t go into as much detail as I would have liked to as it wasn’t relevant to the topic at hand, so I decided to make that a separate post. I have gathered the stories of how several well-known pharmaceuticals were identified and turned into medicines, with the goal of showing just how diverse and complex this process can be. For all these stories,

Forgive my hiatus, I have been dealing with some personal issues. When you think of ‘natural medicine’ or plant-based medicine,’ you...

I’ve talked before about solar storms, specifically about how they are caused by the internal workings of the Sun causing its magnetic...

There were some recent stories in the news about a study reversing a patient’s type 1 diabetes using stem cell therapy. These are very...

While doing research for my previous post , I very briefly mentioned the use of animal tissue as wound dressings. This partial-sentence...

You may have heard in the news recently that back in March, a 62-year old patient received a donor kidney from a genetically engineered...

With yet another pandemic in the news, I thought it prudent to talk about bird flu. While this new pandemic hasn’t officially started yet...

A while back, I released a post made up of updates to previous posts as news updates came out about them. Since the news has continued to...

Well, I’m a tad late on this one if my goal was to be timely. But since my goal is to cover scientific topics that appear in current...

I’ve been busy recently due to moving, so I needed an easier topic that would require a little less research on my part. A topic such as...

It’s an El Niño year, and there’s already been a major snowfall in my region to prove it. I’m sure you all have heard the name and may...

When writing my previous post, I needed to research some things about atmospheric dynamics that wound up including a lot of information...

I recently read this article in Science News and I thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about. I don’t know how much the...

I recently read an article in the Washington Post about solar storms and how they are studied, and it reignited my curiosity for the...

Since this is my first post since I started working, I’m going to go easy on myself and cover a topic I am familiar with; genetics and...

In two of my recent posts about Earth history, I didn’t get to go very far into how scientists know what we know about the prehistoric...

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned that there are parts of the world becoming too hot and humid for long-term human habitation and...

This is a sequel of sorts to my previous post. During my research I found information which didn’t quite fit that post’s topic but was...