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Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy
Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?
You hear someone speak to you, but nobody is around. What if that was your reality? Being...
Mind Over Matter: How Brain Implants Are Making Telekinesis Real
Imagine a world where you can move objects and complete tasks simply by thinking about them. Sounds like a pretty relaxing and too-good-to-be-true idea,...
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and the Protection of Sensitive Genetic Data
In today's data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available...
Benefits of Composting: why you should start composting now!
There is less than 5% of residential food waste that is currently being composted around the world. To be exact, about 3.7% as of...
Why the tiny arms?
Why are small arms better?
A question bugging palentologists for years: Why did T. Rex evolve to have short arms? Why was it beneficial for...
Frankenscience – The future of medicine?
If you think of science fiction, you might think of Victor Frankenstein. Originally from Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein, the creature and its lore has...
I Got My Brain Scanned for Science
Yeah, I got my brain scanned for science. And you should too! (If you’re eligible, that is.)
Basically, I got an MRI scan of my...
Coffee Chemistry
Written by Julia Raver and Lauren Mellinger
Coffee – an integral part of your morning routine. You wake up and groggily walk to the kitchen...
The Little Engineer That Could: Turning Data Into Fashion
I found Madé Lapuerta’s TikTok account (@lilengineerthatcould) a few months ago, and as a computer science major who, like many others, doesn’t necessarily want...
Is that Marilyn Monroe… or Albert Einstein?!
What's Computer Vision anyway?
When I hear the term "computer vision", the first thing that comes to mind is a computer with eyes that enable...