Tag: Engineering

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…

Medical applications of plasma energy

In a recent class titled Healthcare and Biotechnology in the 21st Century at the Thayer School of Engineering, Richard Satava, Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington,…

Breaking the Mold: Moving Toward More Functional Prostheses

The loss of a limb is a life-changing and often devastating event. As a result, the use of artificial approximations as replacements has persisted for both cosmetic and…

The Final Countdown

Within one second of the detonation, a 20 pounds per square inch (psi) overpressure will be generated out to a distance of 0.4 miles from the Empire State Building. Everything in this circle is utterly demolished. Those within this circle will be exposed to sudden pressure effects that destroys lungs and ear drums, shrapnel from nearby objects, and a thermal emission of such intensity that immediate death results.