Design your own bacteria!
Hands-on Activities
How could you design a new type of bacteria that helps people?
Colouring Clothing with Bacteria
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Learn about using bacteria to colour clothing.
Overcoming Math Anxiety with Confidence
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Learn about math anxiety, including what it is, why it happens, and how you can overcome it.
Plastic-Eating Bacteria: Nature's Recyclers
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Learn how bacteria can help solve the world’s plastic problem.
L. Creighton Avery (she/her)
Career Profiles
Osteoarchaeologist
Sara Matthews
Career Profiles
Researcher - Environmental Microbiology
Allison Guitor
Career Profiles
Researcher - Antibiotic Resistance
Jasmin Chahal
Career Profiles
Assistant Professor
Go for the Gold with STEM
STEM Explained
Learn about how STEM powers the Winter Olympics.
Dr. Rod Russell
Professor of Virology and Immunology
Just Breathe: Lungs and Asthma
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Learn about asthma and what scientists are doing to study it.
Introduction to Homeostasis and Regulation
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Learn about homeostasis and how the body regulates temperature, blood pressure, blood pH and blood sugar.
How Animals Digest Their Food
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Learn about how different animals digest their foods and the organs of their digestive systems.
Respiratory System in Vertebrate Animals
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Learn about how different animals breathe, from fish to humans.