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Digital Literacy and Remedying the Deepfake Epidemic
By Jenna Ahart In a two-minute video posted in April, TikTok user rache.lzh5 sat curled over her camera, hair tattered and speech...
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Dec 20, 20234 min read
Digging up the Roots of Plant Sentience Debates
By Jenna Ahart Since sentience research began in the late 19th century, its definition has expanded to include previously unanticipated...
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May 15, 20213 min read
Ocean Noise Pollution Has Devastating Effects on Marine Wildlife
By Eleanor Ball What do you think the “elephant in the room” is when it comes to climate change’s effects on the ocean? Rising sea...
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Feb 21, 20215 min read
Influence of militarism on science and technology
By Dhatri Badri How far will the military go with technology? The military, in most western societies, has frequently played an integral...
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Feb 21, 20216 min read
The Uncertain Future of AI and Human Rights
By Jaylee Davis A brief survey of the past twenty years demonstrates the exponential growth of technology. Since the turn of the century,...
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Jan 21, 20213 min read
Study Questions Environmental Impact of Healthy Diets
By Eleanor Ball It is a common assumption that as humans eat healthier, the environment will be healthier, too. However, a paper recently...
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Dec 14, 20203 min read
Climate change leads to longer-lasting Atlantic hurricanes
by Eleanor Ball Extremely strong hurricanes seem to have become a mainstay of summer news over the last few years, thanks in part to...
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Dec 9, 20205 min read
CRISPR-Cas9 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry—First Given to an All-Female Team
by Michael Farina Announced in early October, scientists Jennifer Duodna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have now received the Nobel Prize in...
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Aug 5, 20203 min read
Where’s the Social Science Research?
The fraught relationship between climate change and social science funding. by Janavi Kanagasundaram Climate change, climate change,...
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Aug 5, 20204 min read
Fast Internet Threatens Weather Forecasts
by Eleanor Ball 5G wireless seems like the wave of the future. It excites consumers with the possibility of 100x faster connectivity than...
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Aug 5, 20203 min read
Opinions Matter—Even in Science
by Samuel LeLacheur Science is the realm of cold hard facts. The scientific method leaves little room for speculation—and intentionally...
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Aug 5, 20204 min read
The Unknown Nature of Microplastics
by Carolyne Im Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment Agency Austria presented a pilot study of...
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Aug 5, 20204 min read
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
by Carolyne Im On February 14, 2019, OpenAI, a nonprofit research firm, released a new language model that can generate prose so...
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