ASIA: Assessing Social Identities
Tejita Agarwal
Art courtesy of Malia Kuo. The various groups we belong to are at the heart of our human identities. These social identities shape who we
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Art courtesy of Malia Kuo. The various groups we belong to are at the heart of our human identities. These social identities shape who we
Art courtesy of Cecilia Lee. Left. Right. Left. Right. We’re swiping on Tinder, a social network dating app where users swipe left on users they
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Art courtesy of Anasthasia Shilov. Let’s talk about slime. And no, not the kind that went viral on ASMR TikTok. Today, we’re diving deep into
Art courtesy of Noora Said. Oral birth control, commonly referred to as “the pill,” is prescribed to millions of women in the United States as
Art courtesy of Tai Michaels. Quantum computers may one day solve difficult problems, but currently they still face many hardware limitations. Quantum physics—the science of
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Image courtesy of Pixabay. Hearing loss is a commonly overlooked sensory disorder, even though it occurs all over the world. One type of deafness is
Image courtesy of Flickr. Freezing: a simple phase transition with a surprisingly complex set of mechanisms. Researchers use freezing dynamics to study the crystallization of
Image courtesy of Flickr. With an increased demand for wearable technology, soft and stretchable circuits have become an essential component to commercial electronics. This demand
Image courtesy of Pixabay. Spinal cord injury treatment without surgery—the work of science fiction or a soon reality? Spinal cord injuries continue to be a
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Courtesy of Guorui Li. The intense pressures of the deep ocean cause it to remain Earth’s largest unexplored territory. Currently, mechatronic machines with rigid vessels
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong. Whole genome sequencing—reading all three billion letters of a person’s genome—was first accomplished by the Human Genome Project in 2003
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Image courtesy of Flickr. Summer is for squashes, and autumn is for apples. But what happens during the winter? In fields left empty between crop
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. As machine learning algorithms continue to increase in accuracy, their clinical applications have gained more and more interest, as machine
Image courtesy of Flickr. The environmental threats posed by fossil fuels, such as their rapid depletion and the climate change threats posed by their emissions,
Image courtesy of Canva. Just as Charon ferried souls post-death across the River Styx to receive their fate, death too propelled Jenny Tiskus into her
Art courtesy of Ellie Gabriel. Ten minutes into my conversation with Dr. C. Brandon Ogbunu (PhD ’10), I knew that no 750-word profile could fully
Art courtesy of Ellie Gabriel. In a normal year, you can find Phyllis Mugadza (’22 BS/MPH) hanging out in the Silliman courtyard, giving tours of
In 1938, chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann bombarded a uranium nucleus with a neutron. To their surprise, they discovered that barium and krypton were
Whether it be walking into a room of strangers or standing alone at recess, everyone has felt lonely at some point. Vivek Murthy (SOM ’03),
Carl Zimmer’s award-winning science journalism regularly features in the New York Times. A Yale alum (’87) and professor adjunct, Zimmer has also authored fourteen books.