Picture this: a recently retired client with 1.3 million dollars in investable assets comes to you and asks how they should manage their money. You would need to think of how to best strategically suggest what to save, what to invest, how much to invest, and when to do so. This is the day in […]
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The outsides of oysters appear rugged and dreary, but embedded inside lie beautiful, iridescent pearls. Their beauty has made them a sought-after object of vanity and aesthetics in the jewelry industry. However, this gem might be good for more than just earrings and necklaces; scientists are currently investigating its complex formation and how the organization
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Due to advances in both chemistry and technology, modern drug development is increasingly utilizing synthetic chemical compounds as the basis for our lifesaving and innovative drugs. However, many of the pharmaceuticals we have today are still derived from naturally occurring compounds or organisms, and recently, there has been a renewed interest in looking to nature
Transparency is a critical element of science. A fundamental principle of any experiment is reproducibility, or the ability for an experiment to be reproduced by any researcher, which is impossible without researchers being transparent about the conditions of the initial experiment. But transparency is also important to ensure that policymakers, healthcare providers, and members of
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As we grapple with the consequences of anthropogenic climate change, some scientists and researchers have tried to nominalize the cause of today’s environmental degradation. The term “Anthropocene” has been used to emphasize humanity’s impact on the environment, suggesting that humans are the major force of environmental change in this geological epoch. In 2016, the Anthropocene
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Glitter embellishes anything it touches. It turns any mundane and dull poster, project, or Halloween costume into an eye-catcher. That sparkly and glistening glitter, though, ends up as litter in the environment. Although a nostalgic childhood activity, dumping excess glitter that did not stick to your mother’s birthday card’s glue ultimately adds up to be
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As spring comes around, the Boston Public Garden boasts eye-catching colors of roses, tulips, and daffodils. Some of these plants, however, are not native or have been manipulated by humans for centuries to achieve their distinctive traits. These plants are cultivars. Cultivars are variants of wild plants, meaning they are not naturally occurring and require
What comes to mind when the word “bubbles” is spoken? Well, for many, they would see an image of backyard fun and a lot of empty cans of soap solution. But in the scientific field, bubbles actually play a much bigger role in environmental processes and engineering. Researchers in the areas of sea-air gas exchange,
At any given second, the human eye is processing billions of visual stimuli — trees changing color, flashing sirens, people in the distance — and turning them into understandable information. This means that what is seen is only understood after it has been processed by the brain. In other words, perception defines reality. But what
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