Its been a wild week over on the MostlyScience facebook page. But if you missed some of our posts, fear not! We have your re-cap right here. 1) Why you should probably not eat snow. ...
This past November I had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Hacking Health hackathon right here in Toronto. The event brings together healthcare professionals and technology developers to collaborate and build solutions to existing ...
Berry Go Round #62, Covering the history of coffee, how Ivy climbs walls, biological diversity, and plants that can drink clouds.
We have all seen it before, Facebook and Twitter posts of cancer facts, shared and re-tweeted across the sea of social media. Sometimes it’s obvious when an article is fake or trying to sell you ...
This weeks photo is from Phil Hart, it is one of the most popular photos seen online when talking about bioluminescence and was taken at the Gippsland Lakes Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
Kīlauea Volcano Photo by USGS In this edition of Science Picture of the Week, we look at Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano. This image was taken on January 31, 2013 in Kīlauea showing a small lava lake, ...
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (sometimes called insulin-dependent diabetes) is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas produces little or no insulin. People with this form of diabetes require injections of insulin every day to ...
STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY In honour of World Cancer Day (Feb 4th 2013) this week I thought this photo would be fitting. This is a scanning electron micrograph (STEM), coloured by Steve Gscheissner, of a ...
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space.
Photo by Eva Saulitis, North Gulf Oceanic Society This beautiful shot taken last summer in Resurrection Bay, showing six of the seven remaining Chugach transient orcas in existence, is this weeks Science Photo of the ...