Mad About Science: Scary stuff
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff I recently polled the staff at the Reader in anticipation of one of my favorite holidays: Halloween. I received some really great questions about the science of scary things....
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Mad About Science: Meatless meat
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Food plays a unique role in our lives: one part genetics, one part art, all parts necessity. Despite the multi-millionaire chefs on our TVs telling us otherwise, taste is...
Mad About Science: Cool new 3-D prints
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Thought 3-D printing was a fad? While COVID-19 may have slowed down research in technology and manufacturing industries worldwide, it also helped illuminate the importance of 3-D printing in...
Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, part 2
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff It’s all led up to this. One small print for a man, one giant block of text for Bonner County! In last week’s Mad About Science article, we discussed...
Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, Part 1
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Our subject today is too large to confine to a single page. Fortunately, the crew at the Reader tolerates my nonsense when I try to pull off something as...
Mad About Science: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There exists a bunker buried deep in a mountain, on an island, halfway between Norway and the North Pole. This bunker is designed to survive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms,...
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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The ability to learn isn’t a human-specific trait. Every organic creature from the blue whale to bacteria have some capacity for learning — otherwise we would never have evolved...
Mad About Science: Small stuff in perspective
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist As a civilization we have spent nearly the past two years getting our butts kicked by something too small to see with the naked eye. SARS-CoV-2 is tiny, but...
Mad About Science: Clocks
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When someone thinks about a complicated mechanical device, one will generally envision a clock. Anyone who has ever peered into the guts of a mechanical timekeeper knows that it...
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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: plants are amazing. Some plants have adapted to live for an unfathomably long time — think about Pando, the 108-acre...
