In 2011, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three physicists for their discovery that confirmed that not only was the universe expanding, but also that it was doing so at an accelerated rate driven by the repulsive force of the strange and elusive substance, dark energy.
In the United States, brain cancer has historically had a high death rate, with 66.5 percent of patients dying within five years of their diagnoses.
“The impossibility of today is tomorrow’s possibility,” Moran Cerf, a professor from Northwestern University (NU), announced during his keynote presentation at the Oct. 25 Nu Rho Psi Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Surveying the food in the Fresh Food Café, you see that juicy sausage and mouth-watering bacon. All these processed meats, containing high levels of nitrates and nitrites, are commonly known to be correlated with cancer and heart diseases. On top of that, these nitrate-containing foods have been recently identified as triggering headaches.
Social media has become an intrinsic part of modern-day human interaction. It is how we communicate and how we stay in touch. It is how we meet new people and share events.
At the Undergraduate Research Symposium, The News-Letter had the opportunity to interview Sam Allen, a junior Neuroscience major, who works in the Lieber Institute for Brain Development.
Researchers from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have expanded the frontiers of 3D printing. Recently, 3D printing has enabled researchers to construct synthetic organ tissue that can mimic the functions and structures of human cells.
Hopkins hosted the biannual hackathon, HopHacks, on Oct. 21. Twice a year, coders from all over the country arrive in Baltimore to compete in a 36-hour app building challenge. This year, HopHacks was co-hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton.
Ever since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, people have begun to pay significantly more attention and draw more definitive lines to the concept of a “dwarf planet.”
Craving chocolate? Go ahead and grab a few pieces. A number of recent studies have found that compounds in cocoa called flavanol could improve cardiovascular health and reduce blood pressure.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded approval on Oct. 24 for breakthrough drug pembrolizumab, a first-line treatment for certain patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Neuroscientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have long been studying how the male and female brains differ. Researchers have, for example, consistently found significant performance differences on certain cognitive tasks between males and females.
In a retrospective study of medical records, researchers from Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania concluded that lowering testosterone levels in men with prostate cancer could be associated with an increased risk of developing dementia. These findings, if confirmed by future clinical trials, could alter the way doctors treat prostate cancer in the near future.
A recent study done at the Newcastle University in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrated that human brains fold universally.
Recent research conducted by an international team led by Christopher Conselice, an astrophysics professor at the University of Nottingham, found that the universe has about 2 trillion galaxies, which is 10 times more than previous estimates.
Preston Ge, a senior Neuroscience major, worked with the Ted and Valina Dawson lab to publish his research on Parkinson’s Disease in Science magazine. His findings, he says, will not only provide a novel therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease but also help establish how research for neurodegenerative disease is conducted in the future.
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were announced on Oct. 5. The annual Nobel Prizes in Chemistry are traditionally given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The three recipients for the award this year are Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France, British-American Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa of the Netherlands.
