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Aug 12, 2015

Why Haven’t We Been Visited by Aliens Yet?

By Jameson O’Reilly, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering 2019

The title of this article may sound a bit strange, but Earth is just one planet within one of billions of solar systems within one of billions of galaxies within…

Small Steps, Huge Leaps, and Great Bounds

By Jameson O’Reilly, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, 2019

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lived the dream that billions of humans have had for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans had long been curious about…

Is Light Making Us Fat?

By Marc Tawfik, Biochemistry, 2018

Prolonged light exposure might be making us fat. Numerous past studies have established a link between light exposure and circadian rhythm- the body’s “internal clock” that regulates one’s sense of wakefulness. Excessive…