[Photo by David Short via Flickr & Creative Commons 2.0] “By Request” is a series of posts where I track down studies that answer questions asked by you, my blog’s readers. High School Friend Elna asked: “Impending extinction of bees- what can prevent?” That’s a tough question to answer, because some bee populations are at much …
[A statue of Charles Darwin. CGP Grey/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)] First things first: This August you’ll be able to buy a piece of my writing (on real paper) at a bookstore or newsstand near you! I have a front-of-book story about bacterial biofilms and how we can attack them with sugar-cutting enzymes out in the …