How does the thermal printing process for receipts, parking tickets, and the like work?
Explaining the science behind everyday phenomena in an accessible way.

Why Do Cash Registers Not Need Ink Cartridges?

Deciphering the Genetic Code: The Most Beautiful False Theory in Biochemistry – Part 3
Does Nature use only 20 amino acids?

Deciphering the Genetic Code: The Most Beautiful False Theory in Biochemistry – Part 2
How the experimental verification of the genetic code was accomplished

Deciphering the Genetic Code: The Most Beautiful False Theory in Biochemistry – Part 1
Countless scientists contributed to its clarification with brilliance, ingenuity, intuition, and luck

Smart Glasses: Tool or Toy? – Part 2
Useful science apps for smart glasses and challenges of their use in the lab

Smart Glasses: Tool or Toy? – Part 1
Latest research into laboratory applications for smart glasses

Cheryl Dembe: A Woman Who Didn’t Give Up
An inspirational example of not letting obstacles discourage you, but using them as stepping stones instead

What Controls our Choice of Food? – Part 2
Which food components might modify brain activity patterns and induce compulsive eating?

What Controls our Choice of Food? – Part 1
How food components interact with the GABA type A receptor and the search for neuroactive food ingredients

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900 – 1981) – Part 3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 and Krebs' thoughts about life as a displaced person