Illustration by Sophia Zhao. The ability to harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer has transformed medicine in recent years. A new study from

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In chemical processes, catalysts are compounds that increase the rate while undergoing a cycle of structural changes. At the end of the reaction, the catalyst

Image courtesy of Pixabay. The world is teeming with microorganisms in the soil, water, and even air. However, the study of the atmospheric microbial ecosystem

Illustration by Zihao Lin. A petabyte is the equivalent of 1015 bytes of digital information, one billion times larger than the standard megabyte that composes

Image courtesy of Flickr. Have you ever wondered how DreamWorks animators created Shrek? Or how we may measure the speed of light using cheese in

Image courtesy of Michelle Barsukov. For Maddie Bender (TD ’20), it all started with chess. Growing up, she was a competitive player of the game,

Image courtesy of Flickr. In science fiction movies such as The Terminator and The Matrix, robots develop such sophistication that they overpower the humans who

Illustration by Ellie Gabriel. Over billions of years, Mars transformed from a wet planet with a thick atmosphere to one characterized by dry, cold terrain

Image courtesy of Pixabay. If you have ever watched Finding Nemo or listened to an aquarium guide, you know that coral reefs are the teeming

Illustration courtesy of Anmei Little. Most undergraduates love the sleep-fighting powers of coffee. For those of us who can’t take it black, sugar is a

Image courtesy of Yale News. In a not-so-unusual scene at Benjamin Franklin College, whose dining hall often seats professors from nearby Science Hill, I meet