Feb. 11 marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Despite increased representation in recent decades for women across all aspects of science, inequalities are widespread and persistent. Here, I’d like to celebrate eight women who have been highly influential in modern physics, astronomy and space sciences.
This January, it is Alzheimer’s awareness month. Although most have a general idea of what Alzheimer's disease is, there is a poor appreciation of this issue, considering how big of an impact it has had and will continue to have both here and everywhere else. A good
On Oct. 6, 2021, the Nobel committee announced Professors Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and David MacMillan of Princeton University as recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Although this was a day of anticipation and excitement for everyone in the chemistry community, it was especially surprising for
At the end of October, the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the University of Calgary — in collaboration with the University of Colorado — published their findings on important factors that lead to the repair of the gut microbiome and its integrity. While the findings are in mice, this is a
