124 scientists signed a letter criticizing the media’s coverage of a consciousness theory. A Northeastern professor who signed the letter and the journalist who wrote The New York Times‘s coverage weigh on Carl Zimmer, a journalist for The New York Times, walked into a Ballroom in Greenwich Village, where a New York University professor’s band […]
Preparations for ski season start early in Vermont’s Green Mountains. In early October, Greg Gleason, who runs snowmaking at Killington Ski Resort, gives his staff the all-clear. Over the next four hours the system of artificial snow production on which Vermont’s tourism industry increasingly depends roars to life. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water
New snowmaking tech is helping New England ski resorts beat climate change Read More »
Welcome to NU Sci’s new weekly newsletter! Every Sunday, we’ll brief you on the biggest stories in science — from every discipline, from Northeastern and around the world. Cosmic Courier: OSIRIS-REx’s Special Delivery Photo by Muhammad Elarbi, Computer Science, 2022 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully returned to Earth last Sunday carrying valuable regolith from the asteroid
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Electric vehicles (EVs) currently make up about 1% of the cars in the United States. Economic and technology analysts expect this number to soar up to at least 70% by 2050, drastically increasing the amount of energy Americans are pulling from the electric grid. Cars in America guzzle 369 million gallons of gas every day.
How electric vehicles are futurizing the electric grid Read More »
Nuclear fusion power promises to revolutionize the world’s energy production infrastructure and combat climate change head-on. In the 1970s, physics researchers confidently proclaimed that nuclear fusion power was “30 years away.” The phrase has been parroted time and time again, reverberating through popular science, but as time moved forward, the 30-year estimate remained constant —
The future of energy: Why fusion power is always ’30 years away’ Read More »
At the end of the 19th century, James Clerk Maxwell condensed centuries of work in the study of electricity and magnetism into four eloquent and simple equations. Maxwell’s equations describe electric and magnetic fields as a yin and yang, ebbing and flowing through space. A change in one field creates a swirl in the other,
Opinion: The search for the magnetic monopole & physicists’ obsession with Symmetry Read More »
June 5, 1981, the United States CDC published a report describing five cases of pneumonia in young gay men. The same day, the CDC received a call warning about a cluster of unusually aggressive cancers in New York. After the Associated Press picked up the story of these strange cases, the CDC received dozens of
With new technology, an HIV vaccine may finally be within reach Read More »
The past ten years have seen an explosion of small-lift rocket companies. Ranging from 30 to 100 feet tall, these liquid-propellant rockets aim to launch up to two tons of payload — equivalent to the weight of a large car — into orbit. Instead of focusing on humans and large space telescopes, they’re launching smaller
A new space race is underway, and it’s explosive Read More »
