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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...
Going Crazy in Quarantine? You’re Not Alone!
Due to the increasing numbers of people being infected with COVID-19 in the United States, many states have ordered a mandatory shelter-in-place. Most of...
The mystery of the missing seed
One morning as I was chopping up the different fruit for my smoothie. I wondered why the bananas did not have seeds...
Hidden Figures Beyond: The First Black PhD in Chemistry, Marie Maynard...
How would you feel if you knew your work inspired hundreds, maybe even thousands of rising scientists to pursue the career that was meant...
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (2019-nCoV) Outbreak that Everybody is Talking...
People have different preferences for how they want to follow what is going on around the scientific world without having to spend too much...
Do You Live in a Kind Area?
When I went home to Kansas over Christmas break, we had a particularly nasty snowstorm, and my family and I happened to be out...
Gauging the Tides of Climate Change
When scientists or politicians begin to talk about climate change, most people become scared by the severity of the issue at hand, thinking there's...