Blue Bee Baffles Biologists
When you think of a bee, what do you picture? If the image in your mind was of a blue insect doing handstands, you may be envisioning the world’s newest species of bee: Andrena androfovea. After...
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A Quantum Leap in Dark Matter Detection
In the field of physics, scientists have long been puzzled by dark matter. Though it is five times more abundant throughout our universe than the ordinary matter that make up all we can see, dark...
Raspberry Razzle Dazzle
In a fusion of food science, technology, and innovation, six teams of Illinois Tech students gathered at Charlie Baggs Culinary Innovations in Â鶹APP in November 2024 to compete in the Department of...
A Call for Quality Connections
In today’s digital age, where so many connections are at our fingertips, recently outgoing United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has sounded the alarm on a growing health crisis: loneliness. In...
Surveying the SkAI: Illinois Tech’s Astronomy Program Begins Its Orbit
By taking a small step to join the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Discovery Alliance in spring 2024, Illinois Institute of Technology’s burgeoning astronomy program has taken a giant leap...
Protecting Your Plate
Following another E.coli outbreak, consumers are left to ponder a simple, yet delicate question: how safe is it to eat the food on my plate? The most recent outbreak—linked to organic carrots—was...
How Homes Should Prepare for a Green Future
As the movement away from fossil fuels and toward a greener future continues to build momentum, our buildings have become a focal point for the energy transition. The current popular strategy for...
The Politics of Self Preservation in Seoul
In the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law on December 3, the country of South Korea faces an unknown future. In the short term, Yoon faces an impeachment. “What...
Double the Data: Neutrino Hunters Nearing Long-Sought Answer in Fundamental Physics
A presentation at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan in June 2024 included twice the data since the team comprising Fermilab’s NuMI Off-axis ν e Appearance (NOvA) experiment had last presented its...
Einstein May Have Been Right, but Is Our Understanding of Dark Energy Wrong?
For more than a century, astronomers around the globe have been challenging renowned physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. While the latest findings from the Dark Energy...