The global pandemic known as Covid-19 has swept across the world, causing widespread confusion and fear about the unknown. It has taken hospitals, clinics, and health care services by surprise, and many are still trying to quell panic in their communities. As the world struggles to make sense of this unprecedented disease, people in the […]
Science has been making plastic for years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that we started using it in everyday items. How did we go from oil-based plastics to all-plastic products, and what made the switch possible? It helps to know a bit about the history of plastics and plastics science. Humans have been making […]
As you probably know, many viruses mutate to evade the immune system’s antiviral defenses. How do they get away with it? At the molecular level, the answer is that viruses keep mutating and doing so faster than the immune system can keep up. What is a Virus? A virus is defined as an infectious agent […]
