It’s what makes you, you and me, me. It can also be used to help law enforcement solve crimes. It’s Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, aka DNA! Participants will get the opportunity to learn what DNA actually is and how CSI investigators use it to catch the bad guy. Participants will construct DNA using K'Nex®, discover how […]

Join Gaelle E. Doucet, Ph.D., Director of the Brain Architecture, Imaging and Cognition Laboratory at the Boys Town Institute for Human Neuroscience, for the April 4 Omaha Science Cafe as she presents, "Understanding the Aging Brain," 7pm at the Slowdown.  It is clear that people do not age at the same rate. Scientists are still […]

The Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is pleased to announce the 2023 annual visiting professorship named for the internationally-known scientist, Denham Harman, MD, PhD. Dr. Harman’s research on aging was based on the theory that free radicals, highly reactive molecules freed in the normal chemical process of living, cause […]