So, why do you even need an electronic lab notebook at all? A notebook, pen, and neat handwriting are still the basics for some scientists. But in reality, paper lab journals are losing ground. The cost of loss is too great: 17% of research data disappears simply because it stayed on the pages and didn’t...
Thousands of years ago, no human being was born with blue eyes. Everyone, without exception, had brown eyes as a result of the high concentration of melanin in the iris. This is a pigment that not only gives eyes a rich color but also protects them from solar radiation. However, about 6,000-10,000 years ago, a...
Once upon a time, the lab notebook was the symbol of the scientist a reliable, albeit dusty companion to all experiments. But today, when every milligram of data can be worth a grant or a publication, pen and paper no longer do the trick. Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) are replacing the classics, offering not just...
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) genetic editing has become a game changer in biology. Whereas before researchers were limited to a narrow set of model organisms like fruit flies or mice, now they’re going far beyond that. A whole universe is opening up: scientists are beginning to study species that were previously too...
There are more than two thousand species of scorpions in the world, but only a few pose a serious threat to humans. The scorpion Gadim (Hemiscorpius lepturus), the most deadly representative of Iran’s arachnofauna, stands out in this small group. It not only belongs to a different family (Hemiscorpiidae), different from most dangerous species, but...
If cooking is an art, molecular gastronomy is its scientific laboratory. The term, coined by two physicists in 1988, describes a field where chemistry and physics unlock the mysteries of cooking. And it’s not just fun tricks with nitrogen and bubbles: it’s about serious science that helps us understand why certain flavors go together, how...
When it comes to the discovery of the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick are the names that most often come to mind. These are the names that have been in biology textbooks, science prizes, and popular lectures for decades. But the story behind the scenes is the story without which the discovery itself would...