Most people are familiar with a möbius strip, literally a surface with a twist: a long continuous object with only one side. But what about a möbius shape that is instead made up of several parts hinged together? A team of scientists led by Johannes Schönke and Eliot Fried at the Okinawa Institute of Science […]
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Globe-trotting, exploring new cultures, and helping people are common dreams of young college students. For a few ambitious individuals at Northeastern University, these dreams have become reality due to their involvement in Engineers Without Borders (EWB). A chapter of a global organization, their mission is to help communities around the world meet their basic needs
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Many people, beleaguered college students especially, can find it challenging to appreciate mathematics because of the way it’s presented: it’s difficult to see the beauty in a toolkit. But math isn’t only a set of tools, it is also an entity unto itself, rich with gorgeous intricacy. Like a language, it is a colorful and
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Stephen Hawking, a renowned cosmologist and celebrity scientist, passed away at age 76 on March 14, 2018, the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942 to a family of academics: his mother studied politics, philosophy, and economics and worked as a secretary for a medical research institute, and his
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Boston has a long and vibrant history of scientific achievement, a legacy celebrated by the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s semi-annual I Heart Science event. On February 10th 2018, science enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds wove between stations scattered across the museum. Kids built Lego habitats for Madagascar hissing cockroaches; adults perused scientist profiles lining the
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