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Parallels Between AlphaFold’s Neural Architecture and Human Spatial Reasoning 

Yiran Jiang ’26 AlphaFold, a neural network-based model that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence, has shown great potential to aid biochemical research and protein…

Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Therapeutic Breakthrough?

Audrey Herrald 23′ Robin Carhart-Harris is the Head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Division of Brain Sciences, and Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Last week,…

Nanoparticles: Big advancements in the science of the miniature

Anna Brinks ’21 Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing science with applications across numerous fields, including chemistry, biology, physics, and engineering. The famous lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at…

The Chemistry of Primes

On April 27, Professor Melanie Wood from the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave a lecture at Dartmouth. The talk was titled “The Chemistry of Primes” and focused on prime…

Mark Laidre: Discovering the Coconut Crab

Coconut crabs, the largest terrestrial crab, have been studied very little because they are perceived as food and predated into scarcity. In response to the resulting lapse in…