Scientific Rhodes

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...

You may have read in the news recently of a new study concluding that the extinction of animal species is more severe than we originally...

Since my last post was about the negative aspects of having bacteria in your body, it seems fitting to talk about the opposite. The...

I’ve touched on this topic a couple of times in the past, but it is deserving of its own entry. You’ve probably heard of antibiotic...

With the recent explosion of AI programs becoming publicly available, a range of new fears and concerns have also cropped up ranging from...

Recently, the Biden Administration unveiled plans to not renew the state of emergency declaration for the Covid-19 pandemic, effectively...

In a couple of my previous entries, I’ve talked about how inflammation damages tissues and how chronic inflammation becomes more common...