“Like Mother, Like Doctor” is a new blog on TalkingScience, written by mother-daughter team Linda and Dana. They will be blogging about the academic world of science – each will be writing posts about their lives and the science surrounding it.
To begin our blog, “Like Mother, Like Doctor”, we, Linda and Dana, decided to interview each other about our experiences with becoming and being a woman in medicine. After all, between the two of us there’s a lot of firsthand experiences of what it means to be a woman …

My mom writes in a comment:
I think I would like to know what the consequences are of discovering or measuring dark matter. Also, does what you are doing have any relation whatsoever to things like the Hubble telescope or general space travel that people seem to be doing more and more of? Might your discoveries, for instance, give us an idea of the future of the universe as we know it?
xox MOM
These are good questions. What would be the consequences of discovering dark matter? When people ask me this question, …

I’m writing this entry from 6800 feet below ground. I am wearing a baby blue jumpsuit, safety glasses, steel toed boots, a hair net and a hard hat. At some point, my mom commented that hearing about working in the mine might be more interesting than posts on physics, and so I am going to give the human interest piece a try.

I have been working up in Sudbury, Ontario for the past two and a half weeks at the underground lab I mentioned in the overview posts (linked from the right …

Hi, I’m Austen. I’m a senior in high school and I love those deep philosophical universe-scale questions that keep us up at night. Hopefully science will help to enlighten me. I’ll be posting about cool websites, videos, and more that are popping up across the web everyday.

I think that over the course of our day-to-day lives we tend to forget just how big and just how small the universe really gets. We interact with objects and people who are all just about our size in the grand scheme of things. …

It’s a known fact that the environmental problems we humans face are legion, but who’s out there really doing something about them? On Monday evening, September 14th, at the small and informal Picnic Café, between 101st and 102nd and Broadway, Columbia University Professor of Conservation Biology, Don Melnick, offered up a highly informative and consistently entertaining account of his work over the past 35 years studying scientific systems, finding solutions to the loss of biodiversity around the world, and integrating science and policy development.
Dr. Melnick addressed two …