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How Dozens of Companies Know More About You Than You Could Ever Imagine If anyone ever asked me to describe myself in a few phrases, I would probably summarize that I’m a male, around 20 years old, with an...
Genesis & Evolution in a Test Tube
Designing and Evolving New Proteins in the Hecht Lab Basically everything life does — photosynthesis, metabolism, vision, neural impulses, hormonal signaling, DNA replication — is mediated, at the...
Feeling SAD? Blame Winter
Winter blues got you down? Research suggests that the holiday season is not associated with higher rates of depression, but you’re not alone if you feel unusually down during the winter season. The cause?...
Risky Business
The Price of Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry If you feed a camel less and less every day, you save a great deal of money. But then the camel dies. This, according to chemistry professor Paul...
Robotic Surgery
The Future of Medicine “Robot,” a word originating from the Czech word “robota,” meaning forced labor, has evolved many definitions over the years. Robots range from small machines...
The Science behind Touchscreens
And Why the Special Gloves? It’s a cold winter day; you’re on your way to class when all of a sudden you get a text. You take out your phone, but with your gloves on, the phone’s touchscreen won’t...