Kari Kimball, Staff Writer
May 23, 2019
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A certain type of dying starcalled collapsars are spinning stellar stars that are collapsing into black holes as their outer layers explode in a rare type of supernova.
New research by Anna Frebel and Alexander Ji suggests that ...
Charlotte Mineo, Sci/Tech Editor
May 23, 2019
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When stepping into the grocery store a consumer might be greeted by a wall of fresh fruits and vegetables, they might even wander through the dairy aisle, but eventually, inevitably, they will be inundated by the bright wrappe...
Kari Kimball, Contributing Writer
May 16, 2019
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Brains of primates recently were affected by artwork created by artificial intelligence. Nerve cells in macaques, a species of monkey, fired more frequently when they were exposed topicture generated by artificial Intelligence ...
Charlotte Mineo, Sci/Tech Editor
May 16, 2019
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The 29 Annual Steinmetz Symposium marked an important scientific milestone for many students and advisors, and their families. Some students gave their first scientific talk, or stood proudly beside a research poster for the first...
Kari Kimball, Contributing Writer
May 9, 2019
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Green sea turtles, or Chelonia mydas, have been on the endangered species list since 1978. There are now signs that the species is recovering.
Recently, there have been more sightings of green sea turtles around Hawaii by an...
Charlotte Mineo, Sci/Tech Editor
May 9, 2019
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Last Wednesday, May 1, Union students were able to participate in a science writing workshop with science writer Kat Eschner. The workshop, held in the Phi Beta Kappa room, was well attended. Students and faculty filled the sp...
Kartik Nath, Staff Writer
May 2, 2019
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The cells of aerobic life forms contain an energy-producing organelle called the mitochondria. Mitochondria contain their own unique genetic material, in addition to the DNA found in a eukaryotic cell’s nucleus or prokaryoti...
Kari Kimball, Contributing Writer
April 28, 2019
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Recent research carried out by Peter Cole M.D. and others at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine suggests that chemotherapy treatment for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia is causing an impairment in the children...
Charlotte Mineo, Sci/Tech Editor
April 28, 2019
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2019 has already become a major year for investigations into the history and evolution of humans. Early this spring a new species known as Homo luzonensis was discussed in the journal “Nature” after new bones were found in...
Timothy Fagan, Contributing Writer
April 18, 2019
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The debate on the brain’s ability to complete neurogenesis, the production of new nerve cells, in adult brains has been ongoing for decades with new reports coming in just last year.
A 2018 report, from the University of Californ...
Kartik Nath, Contributing Writer
April 18, 2019
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Apple held their annual March event at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, CA on March 25, 2019. The company’s service business entered the limelight when Apple introduced: a magazine service calle...
Charlotte Mineo, Staff Writer
February 28, 2019
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60 years ago, mathematicians predicted that humans could never accurately predict the weather more than two weeks in advance. This week, scientists published a paper in Science supporting this hypothesis.
In 1969, Edward Lore...
