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Unraveling men’s minds

It has been jokingly said that “men are from Mars and women are from Venus.” Often, this is due to the notion that men and women think very differently.

Mathematicians discover a new class of shapes

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(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.

Bat loss linked to 1,300 U.S. infant deaths

At what point does wildlife health become entangled with public health and safety? The anthropocene, the current period of human activity influencing the natural environment, is far-reaching and messy as it considers how human intervention, pollution, commercialization impacts the surrounding ecosystems to reveal how human health often heavily relies on ecological levels of key populations. 

The Polaris Dawn mission

On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, the first-ever private spacewalk was conducted. With Starlink, a laser-based communications system, Falcon 9 launched Polaris Dawn at 5:23 a.m.

Dye found in Doritos makes mouse skin transparent, new study finds

Let’s make one thing clear: Dorito cheese dust will not make you see-through, or at least it shouldn’t. But as researchers at Stanford University have found, the use of a certain dye that these chips contain could be the key to advancements in optical research in biology.