Cancer is a disease that impacts an immense amount of people globally. In the US alone, about 5.5% percent of the population has been diagnosed with a form of cancer. However, there is still so much unknown about its cause. The question persists: why is so little known about the cause of cancer? This disease […]
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Roughly 3 in 4 autistic adults report having difficulty when visiting a healthcare provider. One Northeastern club is looking to change that. At this year’s Husky Health Innovation Challenge, or HHIC, students generated digital solutions to healthcare communication issues faced by those on the autism spectrum, ranging from role-playing apps to wearable technology that tracks
124 scientists signed a letter criticizing the media’s coverage of a consciousness theory. A Northeastern professor who signed the letter and the journalist who wrote The New York Times‘s coverage weigh on Carl Zimmer, a journalist for The New York Times, walked into a Ballroom in Greenwich Village, where a New York University professor’s band
Stars flicker faintly as the dark horizon reddens. Howling, freezing winds and desolate craters starkly contrast the lush tropical rainforests and coral gardens 10,000 feet below. As the blinding light finally emerges over a sea of swirling clouds, a bright reflection appears from the sparse, reddish slopes. It is a silver plant, radiating under the
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At first glance, graphs are collections of nodes, or vertices, connected by lines, or edges. Although visually simplistic, they are surprisingly useful as tools, especially in machine learning. As Frank Harary, a founder of The Journal of Graph Theory, once wrote, “It has become fashionable to mention that there are applications of graph theory to
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It is likely that, at some point, you have opened a website and saw a chat box pop up at the side of the page with a message from someone asking how they could assist you. Have you ever wondered who was on the other side of that conversation? Maybe it was a human or
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When picturing the future of sustainability, renewable energy often comes to mind. However, solar panels may not be all that sustainable — especially when they eventually die. Solar panels are the face of the green energy movement. They accounted for 54% of new electricity added to the United States electrical grid in 2023. But what
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Yolanda Quispe, a park ranger at the Quelccaya glacier in Peru, is greatly saddened at the dismal state of what was once the world’s largest tropical ice cap, she told The Guardian journalists who joined her in the park. Located at the heart of the Peruvian Andes, the climate crisis has had a direct impact
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The ability to use language to establish relationships and dynamics within an ecosystem sustains the study of ecology. Charles Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” narrative describes the tendencies of natural selection and the likelihood of survival based on an organism’s environmental adjustment. Other terms used by ecologists to classify the relationships between species — mutualism,
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