By: James Felton/IFL Science Teaching children to love science can be difficult. Getting kids to wash their hands can be even more so. Well, one teacher in Gray’s Creek, North Carolina, has managed to do both for her class in one foul, really gross swoop. In a post that’s gone viral on Facebook, Donna Gill Allen showed off…
Why Is The Govt. Sending Bacteria Into the Stratosphere During The Solar Eclipse?
By: The Mind Unleashed NASA released balloons holding bacteria into the sky at the time of the solar eclipse, allegedly to study how bacteria would respond to Mars’ surface. According to the Verge, NASA scientists are mailing students bacteria, that will be sent into the stratosphere on the exact path of the eclipse: “The balloons are…
Bacteria In Your Coughs And Sneezes Can Stay Alive In The Air For Up To 45 Minutes
By: Jacinta Bowler/Science Alert Researchers have developed a new technique to study how a common disease-causing bacterium can spread and remain in the environment after coughing or sneezing – and the results are not pretty. The team has found that a subset of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterial species associated with hospital infections, expelled from a sneeze…