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The Future of Quantum Entanglement

We have all heard stories about strange unexplained connections between kindred people or objects, and we know they are irrational. Two twins, separated at birth and reunited after…

Limits to Life on Earth & Beyond: Extremophiles

Open any biology textbook from 1976 to its first chapter and you’ll likely find the same assumptions on the basic needs of life: life requires oxygen, sunlight, water,…

The Quest for the “Gay Gene”: The Limitations of Sexual Orientation Research and Its Future

Jihan Ryu ’12, Applied Sciences, 10W Imagine a woman in her thirties, pregnant with her first child. After a pre-natal screening test at the urge of her husband,…

Artificial Blood: An Elusive Medical Grail

The quest for a blood substitute has endured for centuries. Only recently, however, has medical science made significant breakthroughs in mimicking blood’s role of bringing oxygen to body…

Genetically Modified Foods: The Consequences of Agricultural Design

The Green Revolution was born in 1944 from the hands of Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his attempts to eradicate the problem of…