As the most abundant element on the planet, carbon has consistently demonstrated its incredible diversity and seemingly infinite potential applications. In fact, a recent report by a team of chemists and engineers of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has described the synthesis of a new, versatile material they call “diamond nanothread” (DNT).
A recent article published in Astronomy & Astrophysics found the farthest very high energy gamma source detected to date. About seven billion years ago, an explosion occurred at a black hole in the center of a galaxy.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is national award designed to recognize students with exceptional promise in research in a STEM field. Every undergraduate university in the United States may nominate four undergraduates.
Excited for an extra hour of sleep? A recent study suggests that maybe we should reconsider turning back our clocks this November.
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have repurposed spinach as a form of terrorism-prevention technology. ‘
According to a new study published by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, male birth control was tested for the first time. A new way of preventing pregnancies, these “birth control shots” were given to sexually active males.
Studying mitochondrial DNA may be the key to unlocking autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk. New research suggests that mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) may correlate with neurodevelopmental disorders like ASD.
A fossil hunter in East Sussex, England dug up a seemingly plain and ordinary brown pebble that has now officially been confirmed as fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur in 2004. Although it took more than a decade for scientists to categorize the fossil, the tissue is the first fossilized dinosaur brain matter that has ever been discovered.
A recent assessment conducted by researchers at Cardiff University has identified a potential solution to self-treating diabetes. The answer is mobile phone applications.
As health care expenditures rise, policy makers and administrators are scrambling to find ways to cut costs. The results of a recently published study indicate that it’s possible for hospitals to decrease expenditures without compromising the quality of patient care by adding more physicians’ assistants (PAs).
The United States Navy’s latest addition to its battleship fleet, the USS Zumwalt, is the largest and most technologically advanced warship. The vessel was commissioned, or officially placed into active service in Baltimore on Oct. 15.
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.
