Cassandra Willyard

Cassandra Willyard appears in the following:

My Unlovely Lady Lump: When MRSA Is Ugly, But Not Life-Threatening

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Antibiotic-resistant staph infections don't always start in hospitals, and they aren't always particularly dangerous. But, even after a MRSA-infected wound heals, the bacteria often remain.

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Vegetation Goes Vertical

Monday, March 11, 2013

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In densely packed cities, green space is often hard to come by. Apartment dwellers who yearn for a whiff of nature resort to potted plants on fire escapes or roof gardens. But wha...
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Synergy: Artists Take on Ocean Science

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Each summer, the village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, swells with scientists. They come from all over the world to study the ocean and its marine life. One of those scientists, Whitney Bernstein, a PhD candidate in chemical oceanography at MIT, wanted to find new ways to help her colleagues reach ...

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Why Do We Blush? and Other Scientific Mysteries

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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What is antimatter? Why do we age? How do migrating animals find their way back home? These are some of the 75 questions answered in The Where, the Why, and the How. More than a tech...
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Undoing Creativity: The Hidden Hazards of Control-Z

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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Zack Booth Simpson — a computational molecular biologist at the University of Texas in Austin, a software engineer, and a digital artist — uses the undo button all the time. But he ...
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Can Art Spark a Discovery in the Lab?

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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Andre Fenton didn’t want his new neurobiology lab at New York University to look like the traditional research space: a mishmash of drab office furniture and cluttered lab benches harshly lit by rows of fluorescent lights. That’s why its core holds a 15-foot-long, one-inch-thick slab of glass. The ...

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Artists and Scientists Riff on Water

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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Drink local. The artist Colin Hart has created a public art piece that lets the bravest New Yorkers sample water from the Hudson River (transformed from mucky brown to crystal clear...
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Hacking Into the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monday, June 11, 2012

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For centuries, artists have come to art museums, set up camp in the corner of a gallery, and sketched the artwork on the walls. Earlier this month, 23 artists used cutting-edge technologies (including 3-D printers and modeling software) to put their own spin on some of the masterworks at the ...

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