Our brains enable an array of amazing properties that we enjoy unconsciously on an every-day, every-moment basis: We listen to great music and react with limb movement and emotional involvement, almost as if it were automatic, natural and intuitive. We exercise and practice strenuous kinds of sports to feel better Read more…
The microscope is one of the most iconic symbols of science, at least equal to the white coat or bubbling neon liquids in its ability to endow scientific credibility in the eyes of TV viewers of shows like The Big Bang Theory or CSI: Miami. Yet the kinds of microscopes Read more…
So much of research tends to be a sort of chaotic self-directed learning experience, little nuggets of information coming from many different resources, sometimes with no way to tie them all together. Our lives today are much improved by utility tools and software that go some way in alleviating this Read more…
If you are a neuroscientist, whether your day-to-day involves running rats through a radial arm maze or changing the medium in your stem cells, you might not have had much experience programming. If you happen to work in genetics, you might have brought some data to a statistically or computationally inclined Read more…