When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

Proteins are the heavy-lifters of biochemistry. These beefy molecules act as building blocks, receptors, processors, couriers and catalysts. "Proteins are the molecular machines that power all life on ...

As Francis Crick, one of Britain's great scientists, once said: "If you want to understand function, study structure." Within the realm of chemical physics, a clear example of this is the two forms of ...

Understanding the human brain is arguably the greatest challenge of modern science. The leading approach for most of the past 200 years has been to link its functions to different brain regions or ...

Imagine you inherit a house only to discover that there are no labels on any of the breakers in the circuit box. How would you go about figuring out which switch did what? One approach: Turn on all ...