“Drivers! Don’t forget to drop the pantograph!” I don’t know what it means, but this sign at London’s Farringdon Station sounds important and magical. It’s a large white sign at…
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The pizza ploy: murder by a scientist
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenIn early 2002, Guyang Huang’s career was not going in the direction he expected. A year earlier, his work at the Beijing Genomics Institute earned him a spot in the…
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Image origins: That walking molecule
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenSuddenly it’s everywhere: a gif of a molecule stepping along, carrying a big load. It’s currently going viral online, with text suggesting that it’s a myosin molecule carrying endorphins in…
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Science images in the public domain
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenA few years ago, the British Library put a collection of a million images on Flickr, all made available with no restrictions for reuse. They are tagged and described relatively…
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Women in Science: Maud Menten
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenI recently made a video about Maud Menten. I used Lego, of course, but this time also added myself. Menten is a famous name in Biochemistry, but for years I…
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Breaking glass and restriction enzymes
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenIn one of my undergraduate chemistry lab courses the teaching assistants ran a “Break List”. Every time you broke a piece of glassware, you got a score, depending on how…