The best science takes place outside of the box. Remarkable discoveries often happen in the unlikeliest of places — even in a North Carolina motel room.
Check out this great piece in The New York Times chronicling a team of scientists studying Paulinella, a photosynthetic single-celled organism. The story features Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Senior Research Scientist John Burns, his commitment to scrappy, bold science, and his uncanny ability to craft steampunk instrumentation using toothbrushes and colored pencils.
📸: The Paulinella cell, imaged on an electron microscope at Bigelow Laboratory (Credit: Julia Van Etten and John Burns).
