by Debi Lewis | Feb 9, 2026 | Science Demystified
Meet SynCom15: A Synthetic Microbiome that Outsmarts Superbugs Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. The WHO warns of a post-antibiotic era, where simple infections could once again become deadly. One of the culprits: multi-drug...
by Debi Lewis | Jan 26, 2026 | Science Demystified
What if computation isn’t about FLOPS at all? Every year, computers get faster, bigger, and hungrier for power. (Or they become faster, cheaper, and smaller depending on how you look at it.) Regarding larger compute, we measure growth of compute in terms of...
by Debi Lewis | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Why we think Emergence is the Future of Science Science has spent centuries breaking the world into parts. Physics gave us atoms, biology gave us genes, chemistry gave us reactions. Reductionism has been great, useful, and applicable. But it is reaching its limits....
by Debi Lewis | Sep 16, 2025 | Science Demystified
Why funding ‘Complexity Science’ matters now more than ever Science thrives on curiosity, persistence, and the willingness to ask difficult questions. But science also requires something more practical: funding. At the Raman Lab, our mission is to understand...
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