How to use vegetables as mood lighting

Pickle, the perfect condiment and accent light! Some cool physics explains how this humble side-dish also conducts electrons and generates light.

Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components

Some of the simplest building blocks of life, amino acids used to build proteins, can be made chemically in space with no living cells involved. Originally thought to only occur in low-temperature chemical reactions, scientists at NASA have shown that the same building blocks can be made under high temperature conditions.

CELLS Alive Recommendation

'CELLS Alive' is a fun, easy website full of images and animations for the different types of cells and cellular processes.

Online Biology Book high-school ebook

Dr. Ferebee at Estrella Mountain Community College has provided us a great 'Online Biology Book' ebook for those that find 'Kimball's Biology Pages' ebook a little too complicated. He's also released this awesome tool to the public with an open Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. For us non-lawyers, that means you are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit, adapt, and make commercial use of the work. Sweet!!

Kimball's Biology Pages college ebook

Dr. Kimball, author of Biology, 6th edition, ISBN 978-0697142573, has provided the web a valuable resource with his 'Kimball's Biology Pages' ebook. He's also released this awesome tool to the public with an open Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. In plain speak, that means you are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit, adapt, and make commercial use of the work. Thank you Dr. Kimball!

Wisc-Online: A Typical Animal Cell

'A Typical Animal Cell' is an online interactive tool to familiarize yourself with the internal contents of an animal cell. The layout for an animal cell is also the baseline for a plant and fungal cell, plus some other structures.

Animal Cell Flashcards

Are you ready to study? Of course you are and here is a great online resource for studying many topics, including biology. Quizlet has study tools from spelling, flashcards, and practice tests to studying games. I can't believe I didn't find this sooner! :-) There's a bunch of apps from Quizlet, too.

Wisc-Online: A Typical Animal Cell

A Typical Animal Cell is an online interactive tool to familiarize yourself with the internal contents of an animal cell. The layout for an animal cell is also the baseline for a plant and fungal cell, plus some other structures.

Fanciful photos reveal the whimsical secret lives of ants

Andrey Pavlov's photographs imagine how ants might spend their free time, in lightly fantastical scenes. Although his photos are obviously staged, he uses real ants.

Effects of environmental toxicants reach down through generations

A Washington State University researcher has shown that a variety of chemicals have negative effects on the exposed animal and the next 3 generations of its offspring. That's right, the great-grandchildren still are affected.

While the lettering of the DNA sequence is unchanged, modifications to the nucleic acid letters (nucleotides) affect how the gene is turned on or off.