by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 27, 2010 | News, Science Education, Writings
Here’s a short piece I wrote for DiscoverMagazine.com, yesterday, about a promising new use for Pokeberry weeds. Their berries’ highly absorbent dye is being used to coat fiber solar cells. Turns out their dye can trap lots of the sun’s energy in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 17, 2010 | Writings
Here’s a piece I recently wrote for DiscoverMagazine.com about research that suggests infants have rhythm. (I love the dancing baby in the closing video.)
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 4, 2010 | News, Writings
Here’s a piece I wrote for Discover Magazine.com yesterday about a pharmaceutical ice cream–called ReCharge–New Zealand is producing to counter side effects of chemotherapy. I learned about this in The Scientist. The most important ingredient:...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 5, 2010 | News, Writings
Here’s a quirky (and sad) science news item I wrote for DiscoverMagazine.com this week: Booming Music May Have Triggered Club Goers Heart Attack: ABC News reports on an unusual and tragic case of a heart attack triggered by blasting music. A British teenager...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 30, 2009 | Writings
Discover Magazine’s Top 100 Stories of 2009 #69: Science Sets Its Eyes on the Prize Big money awaits innovators who can build rockets, sequence genomes, predict people’s movie preferences, harvest energy from the tides, or explore the Moon. by Darlene...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 14, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, In the News, News, Writings
Last night, I was reading through the January edition of Discover Magazine, which chronicles the 100 Top Science Stories of 2009, when I made quite a discovery (pun intended): a story written by our very own Darlene Cavalier placed #69! Darlene’s piece,...