Good evening Sci Slugs! We hope you have enjoyed the sun today as much as plants do. Here’s another taste of science. Plants actually bend towards high concentrations of sunlight. They do this by elongating the cells of the stem on the side that is farthest from the light. This type of light-oriented growth is called phototropism. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130528105946.htm
Happy Friday Sci Sluggers. Here’s another fun fact for your curious brains. Scientists have recently found that yawning has nothing to do with boredom or tiredness specifically, but rather yawning tries to cool our brains down so we can think a little more clearly. A 2014 study by University of Vienna found that just like a computer or brains work best at […]
Hi there Sci Slugs! The countdown continues with another interesting fact to get your day going and to keep you pumped for the magazine release on May 4th. Catsharks emit a green bio-fluorescence that can only be seen through shark vision. At depth, it is important for members of the same species to be able to locate each other despite […]
Ahoy Sci Sluggers! To celebrate our upcoming issue we are doing a countdown of cool science facts. The new issue will be released on Wednesday, May 4, so keep an eye out for them around UCSC. Starting off the countdown is a fact about the bones that make up your body. A fully grown adult body has around 206 bones. […]
When pondering the universe, we can think of it as an iceberg floating in the ocean. All that we can see – the planets, the stars, the galaxies – is within the tip. Roughly one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg is above the water. Similarly, what we can “see” of the universe makes up only around 15% of the […]
This weekend, the Student Media Press Center was taken over by a bunch of scientific slugs busy with magazine production. But don’t worry, we are going to be back with a brand new Spring issue in a couple weeks. Until then, ahoy! The Editors
Once, loneliness led to revelry and camaraderie: falling down stairs and sleeping in a heap. I’d wake up like a groggy beast of burden resigned to drop my shoulder into the harness one more day. Now I watch Faraday shock toads with magnets drawn over copper wires on the page, and I wonder endlessly how a rim of infinite parallelepipeds […]
As I write my genetics lab report while listening to Imagine Dragon’s Radioactive for perhaps the 88th time on the radio, I contemplate whether people can really be radioactive. Wikipedia tells me yes– we earthlings indeed radiate some gamma rays thanks to a miniscule amount of naturally present Potassium-40 in our bodies. Some of this we get from bananas. But […]
context for this post: http://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y Science is ruining my life. I came to this conclusion the same way I rationale all my life philosophies: partially drunk and alone in my bed, unable to sleep at three in the morning. Three a.m. is a majestic time because I’m not as inebriated as the hours prior and the sheer exhaustion makes for […]
Some of the products of the merging of the left brain and the right brain in a summer UCSC Science Illustration course with a graduate from the Science Illustration Certificate Program at California State University at Monterey Bay, Lucy Conklin – A somewhat artistic interpretation of science, one by which you force yourself to look close enough at the seemingly […]