Smarter Ways to Battle Bacteria

Ioulia Bespalova

Battling bacteria can be tough, as they can evolve quickly and resist many of our treatments. But Shelley Haydel is working on new ways to fight bad bacteria.

Read more about Is The Letter "A" Red?

Do you think math would be easier if the numbers were color coded? For people with synesthesia, remembering might be a bit easier due to differences in how their brains work. Synesthesia happens when senses—taste, hearing, smell, sight, or touch—that are normally not closely linked are experienced together.

Wesley Tierney

Read more about Sugary Surprises from RNA

RNA is an important molecule that often helps your body make proteins. But RNAs aren’t all the same—some may help your immune cells fight off infections by providing them with extra sugar.

Pooja Kadaba Ranganath Rosario A Marroquin-Flores

Cell Parts Game

Explore the Cell Viewer Game

Cells are the basic building blocks of life, but what all do cells hold? You can now look inside of cells to learn more about their parts in our Cell Viewer.

To learn more about cells and cell parts, visit Building Blocks of Life for more of the story.

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Read more about Plant and Microbial Invasions

All over the world, plants are dependent on secret partners—bacteria and fungi—for their survival. But what happens to these relationships if new, exotic plants move into the area?

Wendal Kane

Gene Editing illustration showing scissors cutting DNA

Cutting DNA with CRISPR

Christian H. Ross

What is gene editing? And how does the one of the most-used gene editing tools, called CRISPR, work?
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Read more about Spicy is Tasty to Tree Shrews

Tree shrews eat plants that are extremely spicy, while most other animals avoid these plants. What makes them able to stand this spiciness?

Ananya Sen

Itty Bitty Beasts

Ioulia Bespalova

Tardigrades are some of the toughest animals on earth. They can survive freezing, drying up, radiation, and space, all while being smaller than the tip of a pencil.