The Pump of Youth
What is the secret to a long life? The heartbeat of some animals may hold a clue. Studies have concluded that mammals get about a billion heartbeats per lifetime. They can use them at a rate of a...
View ArticleBack to School Heart Rate Checkup
**This is a guest post written by NC State undergraduate, Jakini Kauba. Jakini has been collaborating with Dr. Clint Penick on the Beats project, digging through over a century of scientific literature...
View ArticleNew Project: The Life of Pants
Do clothes contribute to body odor? Let’s be real: I have body odor, you have body odor, we all have body odor. Most of us can at least vaguely remember that time during our awkward preteen years that...
View ArticleThe Wild Lives of Gutters
As a rule of thumb, we like to assume that if a surface exists, there’s something (or many things) living on it. These “things” are microscopic organisms – bacteria, fungi, protists, and even archaea –...
View ArticleA Tree’s Life (A New Citizen Science Project)
Would you give a few minutes a year to reveal the future of forests? What would be the easiest citizen science project ever? Watching paint dry? Falling off a log? Maybe. But what would you, or anyone...
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