Wifi Goes Viral Computer scientists at the University of Liverpool have engineered a virus like no other. Known as “Chameleon,” the computer virus is designed to spread airborne through wireless connection networks and is as swift as the common cold. Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Electronics simulated […]
A Better Sense of Our Place in Space By Megan Wassick, Undeclared, 2018 Where in the universe are we? …well, yes, we’re in Massachusetts. But think bigger than that: beyond the United States or even North America or the Earth. Earth is in the Solar System, the Solar System in the Milky Way — but what is bigger
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The Science of the Forgotten Dream By Naomi Stapleton, Psychology, 2016 Picture the scene: You burst through the door for your 8 a.m. class, just in time. You feel the relief wash over you — but no, that’s not relief. That prickling, trickling feeling is sweat. With a shock, you come to the conclusion that you are
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Mobile Eye Tracking: How Decisions Affect Your Emotional State The majority of young adults dread old age, not only due to the health issues associated with it, but because they know it brings them ever closer to the terrifying concept of death. This public stigma has resulted in a perspective that being “young” is fundamentally
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iChip Isn’t Off the Same Old Block By Jen Obrigewitch, Biology, 2017 You’ve been sick for days and midterms are coming up, so you drag yourself to health services. The doctor comes in and shoves medical instruments in your ears, mouth, and nose before deciding that you have an infection; you need antibiotics. He gives you
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Superhydrophobic Material Researchers at the University of Rochester were recently featured in the news for creating a super-hydrophobic metal using a high-powered laser. It is the perfect scientific news story — shiny metals, slow motion water droplets, lasers — but the real world implications of this story are also very exciting. The idea behind the experiment has been observed
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Egg-cellence in Research By Nilufar Nasirova, Biochemistry, 2018 Cancer is one of the most deadly groups of diseases, taking away millions of lives every year. In 2012 the number of patients diagnosed with cancer worldwide was over 14 million. The World Health Organization, or WHO, predicts that this number will continue to grow every year and
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Exoplanets in the Lab By Aria Elahi, Biology 2017 The shock compression of stishovite and other forms of silica has allowed physicist Mariot Miller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his colleagues to replicate theoretical conditions of giant planet cores. This reveals a great deal of the “structure formation and evolution of giant planets and
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Under the (Three) Seas By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017 Between the torrential downpours, the geckos, birds, and howler monkeys that act as my alarm clock, and the sloths I’ve befriended, it’s hard to forget where I am. Currently, I am living at the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute in Bocas del Toro, Panama with Northeastern’s Three
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