Tag: science
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Can You Grow Bacteria from Your Phone? We Did the Experiment!
Let’s face it—our phones go everywhere with us: the bathroom, the kitchen, public transportation, even the gym. But how often do we actually clean them? At The Biology Buzz, we decided to get scientific and investigate a surprisingly unsettling question: Can you grow bacteria from your phone? Spoiler: You can. We ran a hands-on microbiology…
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Book Review: Behave
What makes us do what we do? Why do we empathize with strangers, or explode in rage, or commit acts of astonishing kindness? In Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky, a neuroendocrinologist and professor at Stanford, talks about these questions with the precision of a scientist and the storytelling…
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