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ReTHINKING Space Propulsion for Interstellar Travel
By Kisothan Suthakaran In 2016, astronomers discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest-known star, situated such that its temperature allows liquid water to possibly exist on its surface. Our current knowledge about this exoplanet is...
5 Stem Podcasts to Subscribe to
By Madeline Miller One of the most expanding career fields is STEM. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. From advances in the medical sciences, to building the first aircraft, STEM fields have shaped our society as we know it today. For...
An Introduction to Cancer: Causes, Preventions and Controversies
By Sampoorna Prakash Cancer is a well known, fatal disease that affects millions of people and children worldwide each year. No cure has been found to completely eradicate cancer cells even after decades of focused research! What is Cancer? In one line, cancer is...
Life Lessons You Can Learn From STEM
STEM is an abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields of study that rely on facts and evidence rather than emotion. The National Education Association suggests that the skills learned through STEM education can be applied to some of life’s...
Natural Philosophy in the Ancient and Early Modern Worlds
By Benjamin D. Fedoruk Since antiquity, natural philosophy has served as the foundational and universal way of knowing for all of mankind. Although natural philosophy is no longer a mainstream predicate to modern understandings of the world, it is an interesting study...
Machine Learning in Biomedical Research
By Ruthie Fogel What if there was a way the world can prevent cancer and other detrimental diseases? What if there was a way to discover new drugs and predict their efficacy and success rate to find the right therapy path for a patient? Artificial...
Mantis Shrimp: 20/20/20/20/20/20 Vision
By: Kun Lian (Angela) Qian The ocean is home to a plethora of creatures, none of which are quite as fascinating as the mantis shrimp. These creatures are actually not shrimp at all, but rather, stomatopods. The mantis shrimp has several unique characteristics, from...
VR in the OR, ER, and beyond
By: Reanna Chowdhury Virtual reality (VR), where software is used to mimic an artificial three-dimensional sensory environment, is one of the greatest technological phenomena. It sounds like a recent concept but the first VR system was actually created over half a...
The Implications of Synthetic Biology: A Brief Historical Reflection
By: Jacob L. Fine Introduction It’s alive!—the iconic shriek made by Dr. Frankenstein after creating human life in a lab—is by now universally recognized. Though Mary Shelley’s coup de maître Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and its 1931 film adaptation...
Perspectives on Machine Intelligence in Medical Research
By Nathaniel Goldstein This past summer, I had the opportunity to read The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence, a book written in 2017 by Amir Husain. A technologist and entrepreneur, Husain describes the nature of machine intelligence and...
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