At first glance, the sounds and sights of honeybees buzzing about may seem chaotic, but there is actually quite a bit of structure to the roles that each bee plays in a hive. Worker bees do most of the grunt work like cleaning the honeycomb cells, feeding other bees, and collecting pollen. Drones are male […]
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It’s no secret that climate change is responsible for a plethora of environmental issues, and according to recent research, a giant and toxic algal bloom off the west coast of the United States can be added to the long list of climate change–induced disasters. According to a 2020 study published in Frontiers in Climate and
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CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a simple life-saving technique where one performs chest compressions and ventilations on a person experiencing cardiac arrest to keep blood pumping throughout their body. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to cardiac arrest, a disturbance within the heart’s electrical system that
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This article continues a series on anti-racism in STEM co-authored by Northeastern alum Claire Williams. A fully collaborative effort, see the list of authors, contributors, as well as the series in its entirety at the following website: https://antiracisminstem.wordpress.com/ See other installments in this series: [ 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 ] 6. “Diversity initiatives are unfair to non-minority students/faculty; it’s reverse discrimination.”
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This article continues a series on anti-racism in STEM co-authored by Northeastern alum Claire Williams. A fully collaborative effort, see the list of authors, contributors, as well as the series in its entirety at the following website: https://antiracisminstem.wordpress.com/ See other installments in this series: [ 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 ] 4. “I only hire/award/cite based on merit; I
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This article continues a series on anti-racism in STEM co-authored by Northeastern alum Claire Williams. A fully collaborative effort, see the list of authors, contributors, as well as the series in its entirety at the following website: https://antiracisminstem.wordpress.com/ See other installments in this series: [ 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6]
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This article begins a series on anti-racism in STEM co-authored by Northeastern alum Claire Williams. A fully collaborative effort, see the list of authors, contributors, as well as the series in its entirety at the following website: https://antiracisminstem.wordpress.com/ NU Sci foreword from Editor-in-Chief Binh Dang: 2020 has been a year of reckoning for the United
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Diffraction Peaks and Discovering Primes By Jennifer Garland, Applied Physics, 2021 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 37: Interaction. Crystal structures are symmetric and periodic, and they form some of the more predictable patterns in the universe. However, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shook up the field of crystallography
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Weird Flex: Field-Responsive Mechanical Metamaterials By Jennifer Garland, Applied Physics & Math, 2021 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 39: Synthetic. Many of today’s synthetic materials were inspired by nature. Jeffrey Grossman, a materials science and engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has said that “nature is
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