From the Editor: 85.2 Science and the Sexes
Welcome to Issue 85.2 of the Yale Scientific Magazine!
William Zhang
March 18, 2012
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Welcome to Issue 85.2 of the Yale Scientific Magazine!
Yale researcher Katie Prudic has discovered that Bicyclus anynana, a species of African butterfly, changes its courting and mating behavior based upon the temperature in which it is raised.
Anesthesia is a critical component of any surgery, but its mechanism and effects remain largely unclear.
To conclude the tenure of the 2011 masthead, we found no theme fitting than the “The Future of Science.”
Professor Nihal de Lanerolle focuses on the study of explosive blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury, attempting to determine the neuropathology and mental effects of this poorly-understood and often invisible type of neurological damage.
Professor Todd Constable has designed a new way of encoding spatial information in magnetic resonance imaging devices, using a radial magnetic field gradient instead of a linear one to drastically decrease the amount of time and data necessary to build a complete MRI image.