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A Fields Medal is not in everyone’s future, and that’s fine. However, that shouldn’t stop people from acquiring a decent level of mathematical understanding.
This illness, however, began to spread beyond Water Street. It was finally identified on Aug. 19 when Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most prominent American physicians of the time, announced that the cases were of yellow fever.
Over the past few decades, educational and developmental psychologists have attempted to understand the link between the concept of one’s self and academic achievement.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to control how long you live?
Animals are commonly believed to possess innate social behaviors. A one-day-old baby chick will instinctively search for its mother and follow closely by her side.
Among the many interesting health fads to surface or resurface in the 21st century, women eating their own placentas has been regarded as one of the most bizarre.
Hopkins, one of the oldest research universities in the U.S., offers students a range of different research opportunities.
In early October, thousands gathered in Orlando, Fla. to celebrate the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the world’s largest gathering of women in computer science.
A video game obsession is the bane for many parents who wish their child would focus more on their schoolwork, chores or other responsibilities. Traditionally, video games have been linked to lower productivity levels in adolescents.
I can’t say I’ve always been an avid believer in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Google commits a record $1 billion to promote innovation
Some of them did it for science, others out of curiosity. Some had altruistic motives, others just had plans for the $4,000 they would be receiving after the study.
In a new study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, microbiologists genetically modified mosquitoes to be more resistant to Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, by changing the composition of the mosquitoes’ gut bacteria.
In pop culture cannabis is typically associated with feelings of relaxation, but recent studies have shown that the using cannabis frequently can lead to an increase in violent behavior later in life.
According to a recent report published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), America’s obesity rate has once again reached an all-time high. The report was published by statisticians last week and demonstrates that nearly four in ten American adults have body mass indexes (BMIs) in the obese range.
Can you imagine heading over to a nearby grocery store to pick up some items and being unable to find a banana? Today the banana is one of the most common fruits purchased by consumers. In particular, the Cavendish variety, which is curved and yellow, makes up almost 100 percent of all marketed bananas in the United States.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have recently designed a system to monitor respiratory rates using affordable thermal cameras.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday, Oct. 8 for the discovery of gravitational waves.
Within hours of the briefing, media articles about Frieden’s remarks and the landmark CDC report that assessed the state of antibiotic resistance in the U.S. began circulating. Frieden’s warning of a “post-antibiotic era,” proved to be a succinct, provocative way to summarize the possibility of a world in which bacterial infections can no longer be effectively combated.