Growing Smarter
Brandon Ngo
Art Courtesy of Molly Hill. Consider a scenario where you’re at a doctor’s office battling the flu. Your doctor diligently measures your blood pressure, listens
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Art Courtesy of Molly Hill. Consider a scenario where you’re at a doctor’s office battling the flu. Your doctor diligently measures your blood pressure, listens
Art Courtesy of Madeleine Popofsky. The great irony of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) is that even as programs have gained capabilities that ten
Art Courtesy of Patricia Joseph. For all our Ice Age movies, artistic renderings, and sci-fi murmurings of de-extinction, mammoths have never quite lost their mythic
Art Courtesy of Alondra Moreno Santana. Scientists believe they may have found a possible explanation for a puzzling, recently discovered cosmological phenomenon. First observed in
Art Courtesy of Jiya Mody. According to the CDC, overdoses involving opioids claimed the lives of 80,411 Americans in 2021. Amid this crisis, healthcare professionals
Art Courtesy of Patricia Joseph. Over a still pond, a raindrop falls on a line of water striders. It engulfs one of the insects, launching
Image Courtesy of Creazilla. In a world where cancer claims millions of lives every year, a pioneering study by Yale’s Krishnaswamy lab in collaboration with
Image Courtesy of Therapy for Women Center. Every night, six thousand women experience an internally staged rebellion. Waves of heat engulf them, and their skin
Photo Courtesy of Paul-Alexander Lejas. Imagine walking into your friend’s house and finding that it’s filled with fossils. Well, that’s exactly what Derek Briggs, a
Image Courtesy of Jean-François Monette. Composer Matthew Suttor and the team of artists and programmers behind the experimental opera I AM ALAN TURING have welcomed
Image Courtesy of Flickr. In the gloomy hours of the night, a hungry pit viper finds itself in search of a meal. Despite the darkness,
Image Courtesy of Pexels. Scientists believe that when planetary systems first form, they are in a pristine, near-resonant state. Near-resonance describes when the orbits of
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The highly invasive nature of the human placenta, which embeds deeply into a mother’s endometrium, starkly contrasts with placental structures
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Before the great explosion of biodiversity in the Cambrian period brought nearly all familiar phyla of animals into the world,
Image Courtesy of Michael Clesle. Around six percent of the US population will experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lifetime. Marked
Photo Courtesy of Nyla Marcott. A substance that was previously viewed as trash might be treasure. Lignin, a byproduct of paper production, has been transformed
Image Courtesy of Pexels. Since 400 A.D., the Cannabis sativa plant—more commonly known as marijuana—has served as a remedy prescribed to alleviate conditions including pain,
Image Courtesy of Picryl. If you are a patient soon undergoing open-heart mitral valve surgery—surgery to correct one of four major valves in the heart—the
Image Courtesy of Wannapik Studio. The use of hand gestures for communication has a long history, dating as far back as 5 B.C.E. in ancient
Image courtesy of Pixabay. In his book Performance All the Way Down, Yale curator and ornithologist Richard Prum champions intersectionality to explore evolutionary and developmental
Image Courtesy of Flickr. Had Nemo’s siblings survived, maybe there would’ve been a fight for dominance over his anemone. Alas, we’ll never know. Nemo and
Image Courtesy of Flickr. Elon Musk has blown up Twitter—sorry, X—again! On January 29, 2024, the multibillionaire investor and innovator announced that human trials for
Photo courtesy of Emily Boring, communicated by Paul-Alexander Lejas Although religion and science are frequently portrayed as conflicting forces, Emily Boring (YC ’18, DIV ’23)
Image Courtesy of Flickr. How did Ken and Barbie make their way into the genome? In the podcast Science Friday, “Science Diction” host and producer