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(05/02/14 1:24am)
Scientists have stumbled across an exciting new lead in the search for extraterrestrial life. After analyzing data collected from NASA’s Kepler orbiting observatory from March 2009 to May 2013, researchers have discovered the most Earth-like exoplanet yet with a promising potential for sustaining life.
(04/24/14 10:33pm)
“If black boxes are indestructible, why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?”
(03/27/14 2:17pm)
Examination of stained post-mortem brain slices of children with autism suggest that the condition starts in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy during brain development.
(03/13/14 3:04pm)
Mystery, intrigue and concern shroud Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 as officials scramble to uncover the missing plane. Such a strange occurrence raises the obvious question: How does a 200-plus passenger jet simply vanish in the first place?
(03/07/14 1:41am)
Pregnancy is one of the most strangely beautiful mysteries of life. In slightly less than a year, a tiny new person is fashioned through a laborious, yet gratifying algorithm of biology. But what if pregnancy lasted longer, say several decades, and never even produced a viable offspring?
(03/06/14 3:55pm)
In a hopeful instance of déjà vu, a second baby born with HIV has been possibly cured of the virus after intense and early post-birth treatment — by a team including Dr. Deborah Persaud, a physician at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
(02/21/14 7:02pm)
The once shy and mellow marijuana plant has been thrust center stage of America’s political arena in the ever-polarizing legalization debate. Everyone and their grandmother is in possession of an opinion; however, the cold hard scientific research with regards to marijuana’s health implications is lacking in comparison to other commonly known recreational drugs. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are looking to change that reality.
(02/08/14 12:59am)
“Buy six gallons of milk, get the seventh free!” A massive banner draped across the refrigerated aisle promotes the bone-building qualities of a hearty glass of American-made milk. If you think these advertisements are a bit excessive for one grocery store trip you’d be in agreement with Walter Willet, a Harvard University nutritionist who’s got a bone to pick with the dairy industry.
(01/30/14 10:25pm)
Researchers at The Brain Observatory in San Diego have embarked on a quest to help illuminate the meaning of a mysterious language engraved within a 2,401-page book. The inscriptions are those of neuroscience and the pages are brain slices. Two-thousand four-hundred and one slices of brain.
(11/22/13 1:31am)
A newcomer named ISON is paying a visit to our inner solar system just in time for this year’s Thanksgiving meal. If your eye has any inclination towards the night sky you might want to set your alarm at an ungodly hour for a chance to glimpse what is to be a spectacular show from outer space.
(11/15/13 8:27pm)
Indeed, there are strange, strange things lurking in the deep.
(10/31/13 4:27pm)
In honor of one of the most largely recognized and creepiest of holidays, the Science and Technology section of The News-Letter presents to you, an assemblage of the absolute freakiest animals on Earth.
(10/26/13 6:57pm)
Money doesn’t grow on trees but apparently gold does.
(10/18/13 9:03pm)
I watched, mildly terrified, as my paramedic instructor stabbed an EpiPen into a sheet of cardboard. The shot of epinephrine, used to stave off the lethal effects of an anaphylaxis reaction, forcefully splattered against the wall a good ten feet away. Talk about intense.
(10/14/13 5:34pm)
If celestial bodies could embrace cultural titles, then the wandering planet named PSO-J318.5-22 would be the hipster of all hipsters. Recently discovered by a collaboration of astronomers working at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the planet — which I will endearingly bestow the nickname, PJ — is perhaps the boldest example yet of Tolkien’s “Not all those who wander are lost.”
(10/04/13 7:43pm)
Senior year nostalgia is kicking in, so I humbly offer a few must-dos before these short years are through.
(10/03/13 5:22pm)
HOW NAKED MOLE RATS LIVE LONG
(10/03/13 5:17pm)
With the impending end of the world a hot topic in science news (discussed on B9), other researchers based in Switzerland are busy discussing its beginnings.
(09/27/13 3:30pm)
Until recently, the concept of squirrels dueling with light sabers was a complete work of science fiction and loopy Internet humor. However, now, a team of Harvard and MIT scientists are claiming to have created of a new form of matter — from light. They make an analogy between the newly created “photonic molecules” and a light saber. And they aren’t joking.
(09/21/13 8:27pm)
Water does indeed drain clockwise in the Southern hemisphere. It also drains counterclockwise in the Southern hemisphere. In fact, it drains in whichever way it desires, regardless of geographical locale. I reluctantly came to accept this conclusion after spending a solid forty-five minutes last year draining and refilling my bathroom sink in Brisbane, Australia.