https://alandove.com/categories/science/ Recent content in Science on Alan Dove, Ph.D. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Alan Dove Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:30:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/in-memoriam-dickson-despommier/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:30:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/in-memoriam-dickson-despommier/ Dickson Despommier, PhD, died February 7. He was a great teacher, an excellent scientist, and a wonderful friend. I miss him. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/understudied-ova-age/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:35:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/understudied-ova-age/ About half of all humans have ovaries, which are the fastest-aging organs. Inspired by her own experience, one researcher made a midlife change to figure out how that happens. The answers she’s finding will help us all. https://alandove.com/posts/2024/curious-citations-of-forgotten-lore/ Tue, 28 May 2024 09:39:51 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2024/curious-citations-of-forgotten-lore/ We’re throwing billions of dollars’ worth of research on a digital compost heap. This needs to stop. https://alandove.com/posts/2023/one-thousand-epitopes-twiv/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 12:37:57 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2023/one-thousand-epitopes-twiv/ Just over a week ago, I stepped out onto a stage in New York City to join a show, in front of a live audience of 130 people. Tickets to the event had sold out almost as soon as they’d gone on sale. It was, of course, a massive ego boost, though the audience wasn’t there just to see me. They were there for the whole cast of “This Week in Virology,” the podcast I’ve been co-hosting for fifteen years.