today i learned (til)
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...
Collaboration is Key!
As a senior in college, about to graduate with an engineering degree, I've come to actually appreciate the dreaded "group project" - and trust...
The Flower Power Behind Gene Silencing
Have you heard the story about some scientists trying to turn purple petunias more purple, and instead the petunias threw a tantrum and turned...
Infectious Diseases, Immune System and Vaccines
Since ancient times the causes of severe infectious diseases in humans have been puzzling to people. Specifically, the recurrence of outbreaks, the severity of...
The Brachistochrone and Snell’s Law: A Surprising Connection
Brachistochrone - A word originating from Greece that means "shortest time." The brachistochrone problem is a well known problem in the world of physics...
Researching the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
This semester I took a course called Locomotion Neuromechanics. Like me, you might think that it would be a course where you would learn...
Too Hot to Handle
As my previous article mentioned, this will be focused on what my role in The Devil Wears Science and what my group had accomplished...