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Paula Clare Harper, AB’10, studies music, sound and the internet. An assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago, she coedited a collection of essays brought together in the book “Taylor Swift: The Star, the Songs, the Fans” and…
Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This finding bridges the “RNA world” and “thioester world” theories and suggests how life’s…
In the discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, Sanmay Das has found one constant: While many people believe that some jobs can be replaced by AI, they believe that their own job is far too nuanced and complex to…
Here’s where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.
The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter?
New research by Dr. Vanessa Gash into the gender pay gap finds strong divides across class, and that part-time work has the same negative lifetime impact on earning potential as long-term sickness.
The brains of politically extreme individuals, whether left- or right-leaning, appear to respond to and process political information in surprisingly similar ways, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper is titled “Politically extreme…
NASA has opened a new Orion Mission Evaluation Room at the Johnson Space Center to analyze in-flight spacecraft data and provide support for Artemis 2 and other future missions to the moon.
The USS Enterprise, a ‘Star Trek’ spaceship, is created from pumpkins as part of a German contest.
A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports analyzed three Maya children’s teeth. These teeth exhibited jade inlays, a practice typically reported in adult Pre-Hispanic Maya teeth.