A daily walk could be made less tedious if with each step, a user was generating energy to unlock new planets and worlds. Imagine powering a spaceship that could travel light-years with a new mission every day just by walking in your own city. Suddenly, the exercise seems like something to look forward to. This […]
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Over 2 million new cancer cases are projected to be identified in the United States during 2024. That means over 2 million families are forced to rethink the upcoming years of their lives. Cancer has long been a topic of heartbreak and dread across the globe. Common treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but it
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Off the coast of mainland Australia, the small, sun-baked island of Tasmania houses nature’s most feral creature. With a piercing shriek, lingering stench, and penetrating eyes, the Tasmanian devil reigns as the largest carnivorous marsupial in wildlife. Its ever-growing teeth sink into bones and feast on the bloody, meaty flesh of its latest catch. As
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After waking up from surgery, we tend to focus on if it was successful, if there is any pain, or if we embarrassed ourselves in front of the doctors. We rarely ask questions about the anesthesia used to put us under. Common surgeries and procedures ranging from root canals to childbirth use forms of anesthesia
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The only place that prioritizes its department of defense more than the United States is the human body. We have a comprehensive immune system with two lines of protection: barriers and fighters. Within this second line of defense, antibodies act as soldiers that circle through the bloodstream marking foreign invaders for destruction. Specifically, the immune
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The generative-AI-art cat has been let out of the bag. In the last several years, artificial intelligence art generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E have had a meteoric rise in popularity — hyper-realistic still-life works and out-of-this-world landscapes can now be created by anyone who can put their ideas into words. How does
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has emerged and has taken the internet by storm: ChatGPT. OpenAI released ChatGPT this past November, and it attracted the attention of millions of people within the first few days of its release. From being able to explain the laws of thermodynamics to coding a Tetris game in Java,
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Have you ever purchased something online? A T-shirt? A new pair of shoes? If so, you are among the majority of people with their credit card or bank account information stored privately online through encryption. As a result, you are also among a group of people who could be at risk of theft or fraud
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Science has always moved in cycles. This can be observed with the seismic shifts that have governed science’s arrow of progress. Whether it be the Industrial Revolution or Darwin’s theory of evolution, these disruptions have set science on a new path. However, it appears these eruptions have been eroded, with the amount of these disruptions
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