For all of its dramatics, heartbreak is a chaotic, overwhelming experience. From having a frustrating tangle of emotions lodged inside to even feeling physical pain, people often feel like their heartbreak controls them more than they can handle. Science shows that it just might. Florence Williams, a prominent science writer, went through a sudden divorce […]
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Glass is an integral part of modern buildings, appreciated for its uniquely transparent nature that provides a literal window to the outside world. Made mostly of sand, sodium carbonate, and limestone, glass resists intense weather patterns and precipitation and is recyclable and relatively inexpensive to produce. However, glass has several weaknesses — it is thermally
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Everyone enjoys the summer days when the sun shines and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. Some choose to soak in the sun, many use sunscreen, and others, well, burn. Clothing, sun-avoiding behaviors, and sunblock are methods that offer sun protection, yet many individuals fail to implement any. Various scientific studies reveal data on
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“Just relax your arm,” the nursing student from Northeastern University said calmly as she administered the vaccine into my arm. A million thoughts rushed through my mind as I sat in the chair. What if I have an allergic reaction? How sick will I become? Luckily, no major symptoms arose after the initial injection, and
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Amidst the “save the bees” movement, honey bees tend to dominate the spotlight, and it is easy to understand why. The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is utilized in agriculture around the world. Farmers in the United States rely on the fuzzy, charismatic insect to pollinate nearly 100 different crops, and, of course, for the
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Many believe that death is an instantaneous and irreversible event, yet recent research conducted by a group of scientists at Yale University has shown otherwise. The group’s study, published in Nature, found that pumping nutrient-rich synthetic blood throughout the bodies of pigs that had been dead for an hour could reverse the deleterious processes that
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Across fields of academia and within everyday life, the origins of scientific knowledge are often credited to European scholars, philosophers, and schools of thought. Embryology, the study of embryonic development, has been no stranger to this pattern of Eurocentrism, with Aristotle being widely considered to have created the field of developmental biology during the fourth
Modern medical advancements are largely dependent upon the strength of the technology used in the field. The skills of surgeons are enhanced by sophisticated tools that can be used in and out of the operating room. A recent, notable advancement in medical technology is the increased use of the intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) exam,
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Throughout the past century, the study of hemoglobin has revolutionized modern molecular medicine. Specifically, hemoglobin, an essential protein which gives blood its red color and is responsible for oxygen transport in vertebrates, has come to be better understood. Hemoglobin protein molecules in humans are primarily characterized by the folding of the amino acid chains which
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