The past ten years have seen an explosion of small-lift rocket companies. Ranging from 30 to 100 feet tall, these liquid-propellant rockets aim to launch up to two tons of payload — equivalent to the weight of a large car — into orbit. Instead of focusing on humans and large space telescopes, they’re launching smaller […]
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Rhythm, melody, and harmony. Each genre of music has its unique combination of pitch, tempo, and texture. Each person’s taste in music is extremely subjective, evoking different emotions and feelings. With so many moving parts, however, it is amazing how a single song can have universal effects on people. Often dubbed the “Mozart Effect,” Mozart’s
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What exactly is time? This central question has stumped physicists for years because it seems to transcend definition. Albert Einstein helped bridge the gap with the realization that time is only considered measurable because a clock does so. In theory, that makes perfect sense. Humans created clocks to designate measurements of time for everyday life,
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It began with two members and one big dream: create a club that allows students to apply their engineering knowledge from class by building drones, planes, and rockets from scratch. Meet Northeastern’s Aerospace Club, or AeroNU. With 200 members nearly a decade later, the Redshift team at AeroNU is quite literally reaching for the sky
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Just before midnight in late July 2013, onlookers began lining the side of an interstate right outside of Chicago — many pulling out their smartphones to film. They watched as the flashing police lights leading the procession silently illuminated the suburb. The sea of reds and blues slowly faded into a sweeping gold. Following the
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + … = -1/12. Crazy, right? Let’s backtrack a little. One plus two is three, plus three is six, plus four is ten, plus five is fifteen, plus six is twenty-one, and so on. This sum, referred to as the sum of all positive
As infinite as our universe may seem, everything is destined to come to an end. The question physicists are asking themselves is exactly what that end will look like. With the continuous, accelerating expansion of the universe, one of those theoretical endings predicts the universe will eventually hit a limit where matter will deconstruct into
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Humans love order. We have a natural ability to see patterns in everything around us. It’s how we gather data and draw conclusions. Think about the work you do in school; you read history to see how it repeats itself, and you redo experiments to find repetition in the results. We even teach young children
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The fundamental principles of thermal conduction are outlined by Fourier’s Law. This law states that the rate of heat transfer via conduction through a material is directly proportional to that material’s thermal conductivity (k), cross-sectional area, and temperature gradient. Just as a pressure gradient is the driving force behind any fluid transport, a temperature gradient,
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