One of the anticipated (and feared) consequences of rapid anthropogenic climate change is the reduction in biodiversity. The essential problem is that the pace of climate change can outrun the rate at which species can adapt to the new environmental conditions. The first step in understanding the dynamics is learning how genetic diversity within a

The ultrasonic cleaner is an effective and convenient lab apparatus. But it’s a lot more than a cleaner. The same sound-wave-induced cavitation bubble creation and collapse — and the resultant pressure jets — also have many other uses. One of those uses is to disperse colloids with sonication. Why would you want to do that?

Science is observational. That doesn’t mean theory isn’t important, it simply means that the most beautiful theory in the world means nothing if it’s not supported by experimental evidence. So students in every branch of science should be comfortable with the experimental foundation of their field. That’s a problem for beginning neuroscience students, because even

You’ve got your lentic environments and your lotic environments, and then you have your beaver dams deparating the two. Researchers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments wanted to know what the effect of the latter was on the former. In other words, they wanted to know if

A group of students at the University of Michigan was tasked with evaluating the optimum conditions for anaerobic digestion of biomass for production of methane. Their requirements are quite succinct: “For this research, labs need to have the capability of mixing gases in reactor bottles containing microbial communities and running short anaerobic batch experiments in