On the SCIdelines

For the last few months, we've been giving you weekly updates about the most relevant science topics that our researchers at Science for Everyone have been looking into. Like many of you, we were wond...

9 Feb 202220min

Big Oil generally isn’t a group of corporations you’d associate with environmentalism, unless you’re talking about their fundamental opposition to it. Last week, however, one of the biggest oil compan...

7 Feb 202212min

Male vs. female might not be as big of a divide as we once thought! Although there are many differences between the male and female sexes, you may be surprised to learn that many of those differences ...

31 Jan 202210min

Usually, we imagine physicists as people messing with lasers, thermodynamics, or nuclear energy, among other stereotypes. This year, however, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three individual...

15 Des 202111min

There's a growing interest, especially among young people, to get involved with science and science communication. Join Thanesh and Randy On the Scidelines and dive deep into what that actually looks ...

7 Des 202111min

The latest variant of concern of SARS-CoV-2 has been identified by the WHO and is starting to spread globally, despite government responses and restrictions. There's lots that we still don't know abou...

30 Nov 202111min

MSG is a popular ingredient used in many Asian countries and Asian foods. However, since the late 60s, it’s gotten a lot of bad PR in Western countries. Join the conversation this week as we unravel M...

23 Nov 202110min

Most of our vaccinations are shots that we receive before we’re even old enough to understand what they are. All we might remember is being afraid of a needle. The COVID-19 vaccines probably broke a t...

16 Nov 202112min