Mangroves: The Coastal Forests Source: Pixabay.com By Brian Cho, Bioengineering, 2023 As the waves ebb and flow on the coast, they crash into the thick, fibrous roots of the mangrove tree. As described by the National Ocean Service, the forests “can be recognized by their dense tangle of prop roots that make the trees to be […]
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(Not that) hard to resist: How humans contribute to antibiotic resistance By Carleigh Sussman, Biology, 2020 Source: Shutterstock Heart disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases are currently among the top five causes of death in 2019. However, these chronic illnesses have not always been the main worry. Flashback about 100 years, and pneumonia and tuberculosis firmly
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Nanostraws: Advancement of biomolecule delivery By Cailey Denoncourt, Bioengineering, 2022 Source: Shutterstock Leading up to life-altering medical discoveries requires extensive research, but for this research to occur, the efficiency and accuracy of the instruments used are vital for better yield and results. One of the biggest outbreaks and usage explorations have been with Clustered Regularly
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Turning off lights when you leave a room; unplugging chargers when they are not in use; taking shorter showers; carpooling and using public transportation. All of these actions, while important to adapt to the age of global warming, leave very little impact in the long run. In order to keep rising temperatures below 2 degrees
How do you conduct a laboratory experiment when your subject can be as wide as 400 AU and as massive as ten billion suns? An international team of scientists at the Black Hole Laboratory at the University of Nottingham faced this question in their study of black holes. Their solution was to simulate a rotating
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What do coal tar, asbestos, mustard gas, and beef jerky have in common? They’re all identified as Group 1 carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Following suit in 2015, the World Health Organization declared red meat as a Group 2A probable carcinogen and has specifically placed processed meat into the known
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One of the most hotly contested and wildly misunderstood topics concerning health and the environment is genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. GMOs are crops that have been altered to exhibit certain characteristics; this could mean plants could be infused with genes not innate to them, or they could have them removed. Plants can be altered
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Most people are familiar with a möbius strip, literally a surface with a twist: a long continuous object with only one side. But what about a möbius shape that is instead made up of several parts hinged together? A team of scientists led by Johannes Schönke and Eliot Fried at the Okinawa Institute of Science
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Globe-trotting, exploring new cultures, and helping people are common dreams of young college students. For a few ambitious individuals at Northeastern University, these dreams have become reality due to their involvement in Engineers Without Borders (EWB). A chapter of a global organization, their mission is to help communities around the world meet their basic needs
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