Prometheus Science has a crystal clear goal in mind: To spread the availability of science and education by creating affordable scientific-grade equipment. These tools will empower people to interact with their environments around them, as well as enable them to find unique solutions tailored to their own problems. See their Read more…
Our genes are the ultimate blueprint for who we are and how we look. They decide simple characteristics of our appearance like hair or eye colour as well as more complex traits such as height or even intelligence which no single gene encodes. These complex traits arise from the highly Read more…
Who does not know the slightly awkward situation when a family member asks you what exactly your thesis or dissertation is about? Everyone has probably realised at some point that breaking your research down to its essence, or relating it to comprehensible examples from everyday life is often anything but Read more…
By Eric James McDermott Do you see it? Look around. If you can see —if you can see anything at all— from the words you are reading to the trees outside to your steaming cup of coffee, it is because you have, among other things, a fully functioning retina. The Read more…
Replication – the ability to find the same effect repeatedly in independent experiments — is a cornerstone of experimental science. However, the published literature is likely full of irreplicable results [1, 2]. There are many reasons for this problem, but the root cause is arguably that the incentive structure of Read more…
Cross-breeding between species has long been reported for horses and donkeys, which gives rise to mules and more recently for tigers and lions (‘Liger’) and bovines and antelopes (‘Beefelo’), but is cross-breeding between great apes such as chimpanzees and humans possible? Is the link between the two species close enough? Read more…
On October 8th, 2016, about a dozen people sat in an auditorium in Zürich and raced each other purely with their thoughts. Hooked up to various computers and sensors, they used their brain activity to control the avatars in a racing game, bypassing the entire physical body to talk to Read more…
Pro-Test Deutschland e.V. started out as a small grassroots organization, fueled by the disinclination of scientists to speak openly about the use of animals in research. It was the reluctance to open up about science to the general public, whether because of poor communication strategies or fear of rebuke by Read more…
We work in a town with a green mayor, a state with a green prime minister, and a country that aims to effectively eliminate carbon emissions by 2050. While political decisions play an important part, the success of such ambitious goals critically depends on the choices of individuals. In our Read more…
Science is great. We get to learn about a topic we love and see things that no one, or very few people, in the world have seen before. We try to find solutions for unanswered problems and push the boundaries of human knowledge a bit further and add a little Read more…