This past month, scientists and delegates from some 180 different countries met in Cali, Colombia to discuss global biodiversity concerns. Known as the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16, for short), the conference collected researchers, diplomats, and innovators to tackle some of the most pressing current challenges faced by our planet.
Posts published by “Erin McGee”
Erin McGee is a fourth year undergrad at Stevens double majoring in physics and mathematics. She is the former science editor of The Stute, and is now a science writer focusing on space and math.
In 1981, at California Institute of Technology, physicist John Hopfield worked with his colleagues Richard Feynman and Carer Mead to create a new course for students that would cover some of the most recent technological advances called “The Physics of Computation.”
Looking up at the sky on a clear night (likely not in Hoboken), there’s a chance you will be greeted by a strange sight: a long, glowing, perfectly straight line of lights filling the sky.
(shot by James L. Amos)
Mathematicians love tiling, the process of covering a surface using some set of geometric shapes with no gaps and overlaps.
Our planet has many fields: corn fields, gravitational fields, and magnetic fields. However, for decades, scientists have been unable to measure Earth’s electric field.
In the center of a galaxy far, far away (13 million light years to be exact) lives a black hole.
Current models for how climate change will affect the Earth are bleak, at best. Most studies predict more frequent hot days, rising sea levels, more acidic oceans, less snowfall, and heavier rainfall at certain parts of the year with droughts in others.
In an ever-changing world of commerce and innovation, preparing students for the professional world is no easy task. Stevens School of Business was recently recognized for its ability to provide this for students, with U.S.
The Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador, is one of the most biologically diverse and historically important regions of the planet.
The year is 1665. At this time, most of science writing is contained in two mediums: writing letters (called the ‘Invisible College’ of letter writing scientists), and writing books.