Tag: Pandemics

Outside the Pandemic, Mostly

June 12 marked the one year anniversary of this odd chapter in our lives of living in a whole other country from the one we used to live in. Gotta say, this is not exactly where I expected to be a year in. Honestly I’m not sure what I expected, but here’s what the reality is: on the one ...

From Space to Superbugs: The Unexpected Race Against Pandemics

Imagine sending bacteria to space to see how they change. Sounds like a sci-fi plot, right? But it’s real. NASA scientists sent MRSA, E. coli, and other bacteria to the International Space Station (ISS) to study them under conditions we can’t replicate here on Earth. What they found was ...