Image Courtesy of Alex Dong. Fusion – the ambitious goal of energy research and science fiction material from Iron Man to Star Wars. Though touted
We all have that friend. The one who can eat donuts and ice cream–essentially whatever they want–without gaining weight. On the other extreme, some people
Image courtesy of Robert Strasser, Kees Scherer, and Michael Büker on Flickr. In grade school, many of us learned that there are three basic states
Image Courtesy of Kayla Yup. If you find it difficult to brush and floss regularly, you might be in luck. Researchers from China and the
Image Courtesy of Lana Zheng. Lego Hogwarts, Lego Krusty Krab, Lego Death Star. Sure. Fine. But what if there was an artificially intelligent, maze-solving Lego
Image Courtesy of Uriel Teague. “Perception is real, and the truth is not.” So said the wife of the late Philippine dictator in The Kingmaker,
Image courtesy of Daniel Gaskill. When it comes to climate change, there has been a persistent discrepancy between what computer models predict and what history
Image courtesy of Flickr. Wastewater is not something that most people in developed nations want to, or have to, think about. For most Americans, as
Image courtesy of Pixabay. Picture this. You have no clue how to solve an expert-level Sudoku puzzle and are given two options: you can either
Image courtesy of Shutterstock. In a world where our attention is pulled every which way by strategic advertisements and technicolor screens, our attention may be
Image courtesy of Marin Tomic. Picture yourself sitting down for dinner, perhaps facing a steamy plate of shrimp fried rice. The food on your plate
Image courtesy of Flickr. Since the start of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic in the early 1980s, researchers have been working to combat the
Image Courtesy of Coleen Murphy. Cleaning our homes is an important chore, as the buildup of trash interferes with our productivity and invites disease. It
Image courtesy of Christopher Whalen. Some 330 million years ago, an unassuming soft-bodied cephalopod was buried and fossilized by an influx of sediment in the
Image Courtesy of Pixabay. Dust surrounds us constantly, invisible particles floating in the air before settling in fuzzy gray clumps. But instead of just being
Image Courtesy of Andrew Morgan Let’s say that you’re watching a video on your phone sideways when you receive a phone call. Instinctively, you use
Image Courtesy of NIAID. While the world faces the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, another pandemic continues to afflict nearly forty million people worldwide: human immunodeficiency virus
For millennia, the pursuit of eternal youth and immortality has been the quest of adventurers and scientists alike, whether through the search for the fabled
Image Courtesy of Catherine Kwon. Among the signatures at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights is the name Eunice Newton Foote. With her
Images courtesy of Flickr. What if prosthetic limbs could act as true extensions of the human body? Not just metal machines, but rather, carbon-based devices
Yale senior Jennifer Miao (YC ’22) was recently awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a prestigious fellowship that fully supports Miao’s pursuit of a Ph.D. at the
A Network Between Fields of Math With the advent of social media networks like Facebook and Snapchat, our world is increasingly connected and complicated. Understanding
Image Courtesy of Pixabay. Your favorite artist takes the stage, and you cheer wildly along with the ten million other people standing next to you.
Image courtesy of Pixabay. Can we trust our own reality? As neurologist Guy Leschziner describes in his recently released book, The Man Who Tasted Words,