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Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy
Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?Â
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...
We need to talk about the women founders of modern science:...
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian Radiophysicist who lived from 1912 to 1981. As Master's holder in Physics from the University of Sydney, Ruby worked...
Your Water Was Poisoned – The Dupont Chemical Scandal
Have you ever been to your grandparents’ house and looked in their kitchen cabinets? As you dove through the clutter, maybe you found an...
Carcinization: Evolution’s Favorite Shape is Crab
Evolution is a very complicated field - and one of the bigger long-standing questions is crabs! Specifically, why animals keep evolving into them!
The phenomenon...
A Chemist, a Vegetable, and Iron Oxide Walk into a Bar
POV: you’re a college student who lives on her own. Not only do you have to do homework and go to class, but you...
The Rise to Prominence of SIR Models in Infectious Diseases: The...
Introduction
The use of a system of differential equations to model the epidemiological dynamics of diseases across human populations has lately gained prominence. Several scholarly...
Plastic Straws and What to DO
The global warming clock says we have 15 years left before we reach a temperature point of no return. Will I be alive by...