Category: Spring 2022

  • A New Way of Modeling the Growth of Dark Matter

    A New Way of Modeling the Growth of Dark Matter

    A New Way of Modeling the Growth of Dark Matter By Ali Fazal Christmas morning may have been a few months ago, but NASA still feels like it got the biggest present of all. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on the morning of December 25, 2021 in its quest to make more advanced…

  • To Kiss or Not to Kiss? Links between EBV and MS

    To Kiss or Not to Kiss? Links between EBV and MS

    To Kiss or Not to Kiss? Links between EBV and MS By Miriam Goodwin With Covid restrictions becoming looser, some will find themselves in new situations. Do you kiss the stranger across the room, do you share your boba on the first date, do you even share a water bottle with your roommate? Mono, or…

  • To Leap, or Not to Leap: How Animals Are Revolutionizing the Design of Robots

    To Leap, or Not to Leap: How Animals Are Revolutionizing the Design of Robots

    To Leap, or Not to Leap: How Animals Are Revolutionizing the Design of Robots By Riya Bhatia Balancing on the edge of a tree branch, a squirrel is presented with two options: to leap or to not leap. Although small and nimble, these animals are faced with the challenges of navigating complex environments and avoiding…

  • Can Machines Learn Chemistry?

    Can Machines Learn Chemistry?

    Can Machines Learn Chemistry? By Bryan Kim Cover Image: Stocker, S., Csányi, G., Reuter, K., & Margraf, J. T. (2020). Machine learning in Chemical Reaction Space. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19267-x. Although frequently employed as a tech buzzword, machine learning (ML) simply refers to using data to predict statistical trends that can extrapolate to new data.…

  • How Scientists are Using Statistical Physics to Predict the Stock Market

    How Scientists are Using Statistical Physics to Predict the Stock Market

    How Scientists are Using Statistical Physics to Predict the Stock Market By Ali Fazal Those that invest in the stock market may know it to be a relatively volatile endeavor. Investors must keep up with the latest trends, exercise personal judgment, and create their own criteria for trading based on their predictions of price movement.…