Why We Can’t Turn Away from True Crime Source: Pixabay.com By Elisa Abraham, Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021 From documentaries on Netflix to podcasts on Spotify, true crime is having its turn in the spotlight in our media consumption. This fascination leads to the question as to why we are unable to look away from gruesome murders, terrifying […]
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When Nurture Shapes Nature: The Role of Epigenetics in Inherited Trauma Sources: Pixabay.com By Alisha Karuvannur-Sandhu, Behavioral Neuroscience & Philosophy, 2023 The nature versus nurture debate has been a pressing controversy for centuries, from John Locke’s blank slate theory in 1690, to the twentieth century ideology of biological determinism. But what if the two are
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Mangroves: The Coastal Forests Source: Pixabay.com By Brian Cho, Bioengineering, 2023 As the waves ebb and flow on the coast, they crash into the thick, fibrous roots of the mangrove tree. As described by the National Ocean Service, the forests “can be recognized by their dense tangle of prop roots that make the trees to be
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(Not that) hard to resist: How humans contribute to antibiotic resistance By Carleigh Sussman, Biology, 2020 Source: Shutterstock Heart disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases are currently among the top five causes of death in 2019. However, these chronic illnesses have not always been the main worry. Flashback about 100 years, and pneumonia and tuberculosis firmly
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Nanostraws: Advancement of biomolecule delivery By Cailey Denoncourt, Bioengineering, 2022 Source: Shutterstock Leading up to life-altering medical discoveries requires extensive research, but for this research to occur, the efficiency and accuracy of the instruments used are vital for better yield and results. One of the biggest outbreaks and usage explorations have been with Clustered Regularly
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Support NU Sci this Giving Tuesday! Donate to NU Sci In the fall of 2009, NU Sci published their first issue featuring articles including More than a sting: How global climate change is creating quite the buzz, The Blue Brain Project, and The Large Hadron Collider: More than just science fiction. Nine years later, we are
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(En)Tangled: Escape from Locality Source: Flickr When Rapunzel was stuck in her tower, she felt limited because she could only interact with and affect the state of what was in her immediate vicinity. Ultimately, she, like everyone else, was limited by the principle of locality, which states that an object is only influenced by its immediate
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Movie Review: Hidden Figures Source: 20th Century Fox By Vivian Lee & Melissa Michels You arrive home after a strenuous day of work to greet your children. They inform you that earlier that day they performed emergency drills at school. Their professor instructed them to hide under their desks and cover their heads in the event of
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