Advances in Simulations of Incompressible Liquids By Jennifer Garland, Applied Physics, 2021 This article was originally published as part of Issue 35: Motion. The Navier-Stokes equations are a set of differential equations that directly arise from Newton’s Second Law and are used to simulate the motion of fluids. Differential equations, commonly seen in electrical circuits, […]
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Science Friday and the Stories that Should be Told By Jennifer Garland, Applied Physics, 2021 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 36: Local. New podcasts seem to pop up every day, but Science Friday has been around for 25 years, airing for two hours every Friday on public radio. More than
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Magnetic skyrmions: New bits of spin By Jennifer Garland, Applied Physics & Mathematics, 2021 The 2D vector field of: a) a Néel-type skyrmion and b) a Bloch-type skyrmion. Source: Wikimedia Electrons have a fundamental property called spin, which can have an orientation value of ½ or -½ — up or down. Figuring out how to induce particular directions
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A Match Made in MHC By Theodore Fisher, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Source: Pixabay As humans, we have a complex selection process when it comes to mating. Innately, we favor certain physical characteristics, intelligence, and personality, and, societally, tend to consider power and wealth when choosing a partner. But recent evidence has shown that there is more
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Australia’s Bushfires: Learning from the burns By Christina McConney Biology, 2021 Source: Flickr Australia has been on fire as of late — literally. In case you haven’t been following the news, Australians have been battling ferocious bushfires, which have ravished around 1.65 million hectares in the state of New South Wales since January 6th, 2020. Firefighters, both Australian
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That’s No Moon… How bacterial “Death Stars” may contribute to the future of drug delivery By Ashley Luo, Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023 Source: EurekaAlert Drug delivery systems are constantly being developed to improve the delivery of therapeutics in humans. Recent studies have revealed an interesting new lead in this area of research. It may not be a galactic
The atom and its entropy By Sunanda Kannapadi, MS Biotechnology, 2021 Underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, 1946. Source: Pixabay Millions of years ago, our universe started off with a bang that shook us to our core, and nature decided to package its impact into a minuscule particle — the atom. Scientific endeavors in the field have sufficiently
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The Structure Of Species: How organisms are classified By Maya Krause, Environmental Science, 2022 Source: Pixabay In 2019, the California Academy of Sciences added 71 new species to the 1.2 million species already classified. The discoveries this year ranged from Cirrhilabrus wakanda, a reef fish found off the coast of Tanzania named for the fictional
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Structure vs. Agency in Humans: How much control do we really have over our behavior? By Kristen Kilgallen, Psychology, 2022 Source: Pixabay Socialization and social institutions are structural agents that have powerful influence over the human psyche. Humans have evolved as a social, tribal species because our cooperation was beneficial for survival. In modern times,
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