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3D Printing: The Future of Manufacturing

Dr. Wendong Wang
Science, Science & Medicine
This August, NASA revealed that their 3D printer for outer space—made in partnership with Made In Space, a startup based in California—passed several initial tests required for space flight. Their goal is...

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...
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