How Math Can Help Us Build Better Drugs
Every one of our bodies contains trillions of cells, each of which plays a specific role to ensure our physiology remains stable, a state called…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
Observing Magnetically-Mediated Behavior In Lab Mice
The ability of animals to sense the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial behaviors such as navigation and orientation is well-established. For example, the use of…
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How Do We Measure Future Snow Cover?
During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, about one-third of Earth’s land surface is covered by snow. However, as a response to the intense global warming,…
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How Does The Latitudinal Dependency Of The Cloud Structure Change Venus’ Atmosphere’s Temperature And Circulation?
Clouds are not located at the same altitude everywhere in Venus’ atmosphere. They are 10km lower at the poles than at the equator. This altitude…
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Surface Properties Of Asteroids
Our solar system contains a myriad of bodies with sizes ranging from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. We call them asteroids. The most numerous…
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The Role Of Actin Rings In Early Embryo Development
During the first stages of pregnancy, as the embryo travels down the fallopian tube it begins to transform from a loose cluster of cells into…
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The Search For Novel Inexpensive And Efficient Non-Noble Catalysts
In the past few decades, the rapid consumption of non-renewable fossil fuels has caused significant environmental and social problems on a global scale. Renewable energy…
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Exploring The Moon’s Iron Distribution
The moon is considered to have experienced a magma ocean, with whole-body melting. Differentiation and crystallization of the melt formed today’s crustal Moon. Major elemental…
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Radioprotectors: Defensive Weapons In The War On Cancer
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer (though with the Vietnam war still ongoing, he never actually used that phrase, calling for…
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A New Approach For High Energy Density Li-Ion Batteries
The golden era of electric mobility may be upon us. In 2016, ~160,000 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the US. To further achieve wide…
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Internal Gravity And Binding Energy Of Comets And Asteroids
The gravitational field outside a planet, a moon, an asteroid, or a comet is crucial for determining that body’s mass, density, and some details of…
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