Five Critically Endangered Species You Probably Don’t Know About Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine Yes, the plight of the giant panda, polar bear, and Amur leopard make for compelling media coverage (and rightly so!) but here’s a list of creatures so close to extinction that conservationists are fighting...
Fueling a New Energy Revolution: Natural Gas? Sarah Tory Economics, Politics & Economics, Science, Science & Medicine “Radon in my apartment?” No thanks, say the makers of a video opposing a proposed natural gas pipeline slated to travel directly beneath New York City’s West Village neighborhood. The push against a...
The Higgs-Boson Particle: How a Tiny Particle Answers Big Questions Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine It could read like the start of a bad joke: Two protons walked into a bar and ordered a round of shots… But the truth of the matter (or anti-matter) is that two protons colliding has major cosmological and...
Predictive Policing: Technology and the Police State Anna Redmond Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine At first blush, it seems like a scene out of an 80’s era sci-fi film. The police chief plugs into the network. Pressing a few keys, he scans a screen full of data and radios a squad car: “Proceed to...
The Placebo Effect: The Science of Placebos Anna Redmond Medicine, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Italy, a nurse and an anesthesiologist anxiously watched a wounded soldier. He was in severe pain and on the verge of shock, but their supply of morphine had run...
The Universe Contained In A Rock: A Meteorite’s Clues to the Universe Kaitlin Solimine Science, Science & Medicine It looked like a scene from a movie: students crowded in a school gym blinded by a bright light in the sky as windows shattered around them. Last Friday was a red letter day for galactic occurrences: the...
