Support NU Sci this Giving Tuesday! Donate to NU Sci In the fall of 2009, NU Sci published their first issue featuring articles including More than a sting: How global climate change is creating quite the buzz, The Blue Brain Project, and The Large Hadron Collider: More than just science fiction. Nine years later, we are […]
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For decades, Mars has been the planet in vogue: the possibility of exploration, even colonization, beyond the Earth system captured the imagination of the public (as well as certain billionaires). But such a mission might be more technically challenging than we’re ready for. Transit of up to a year each way makes it difficult to
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Throughout time, there has always been speculation that human activity has had an impact on the environment, and the interaction between people and their surroundings is inevitable. It wasn’t until scientists noted the relationship between rising temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that environmental protection entered the political arena; a partisan one nonetheless. John Tyndall and
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In 2012, model Lauren Wasser lost one of her legs after contracting Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) when she was 24. In January 2018, the model amputated her other leg because of lingering complications. Back in November, Wasser wrote an op-ed for Instyle.com revealing that the loss of her left leg was inescapable — all because she used
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Many people, beleaguered college students especially, can find it challenging to appreciate mathematics because of the way it’s presented: it’s difficult to see the beauty in a toolkit. But math isn’t only a set of tools, it is also an entity unto itself, rich with gorgeous intricacy. Like a language, it is a colorful and
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As Bostonians, rising sea levels are a familiar concern, with multiple reports projecting which neighborhoods will be underwater by 2050. As shocking as these maps are, they do not convey the full scope of the issue. If nothing is done, global sea levels are expected to rise 25-123 centimeters and 0.5–5 percent of the global
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Many kinds of stars, called variable stars, change in brightness, increasing and decreasing in luminosity over periods as long as years or as short as fractions of a second. However, these changes are dependable patterns that repeat over the star’s lifetime, and these fluctuations can only account for up to two percent of the star’s
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(En)Tangled: Escape from Locality Source: Flickr When Rapunzel was stuck in her tower, she felt limited because she could only interact with and affect the state of what was in her immediate vicinity. Ultimately, she, like everyone else, was limited by the principle of locality, which states that an object is only influenced by its immediate
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Stephen Hawking, a renowned cosmologist and celebrity scientist, passed away at age 76 on March 14, 2018, the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942 to a family of academics: his mother studied politics, philosophy, and economics and worked as a secretary for a medical research institute, and his
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