The Nobel Prize website has a section with games and simulations about topics that have won Nobel prizes. The Discovery of Penicillin is a a small simulation-style game where you…
Eva Amsen

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It’s almost officially winter on the Northern Hemisphere. Time for some snow science! And where better to look for information on snowflakes than… Southern California. Kenneth Libbrecht, professor of Physics…
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“DNA11 creates abstract art from a sample of your DNA”, says their website. While this is a pretty cool idea, I don’t agree with “abstract art”. To me; it’s just…
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The Wooden Periodic Table Table is just that: a table, made of wood, in the shape of the periodic table. It even has panels and compartments to contain the actual…
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Adventures in Synthetic Biology
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenAdventures in Synthetic Biology is a free flash comic on the Nature website. Did I just say “comic on the Nature website”? Why yes, I did, and the comic looks…
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Molecular Origami is a PC program that makes templates for paper models of molecular structures. It’s compatible with public structure databases, for example the Protein Data Bank, and can compare…