✴︎ The
Hypothesis
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It’s July 2022, and the San Francisco Bay has turned a murky brown. Scattered reports of skin irritation and respiratory complications surface, followed by thousands of dead fish sweeping onto Bay Area shores.
While it may seem as though ammonia has already had its fifteen minutes of fame, new research reveals that it could see a whole new era of use as a carbonless source of energy.
We face a multitude of decisions every day— while these choices may seem simple, they in fact involve an extensive connectome with coordination of the brain’s billions of neurons.
The process of statistical inference, which involves drawing conclusions from data, provides a scientific basis for building concepts and formulating theories.
The field of black hole physics is still rife with mystery; however, gravitational wave experiments have provided a groundbreaking lens of observation.
In the pharmaceutical industry, the horseshoe crab is used as a powerful weapon for combatting unwelcome microorganisms in parenteral products.
Regenerative medicine is one of the most recent and emerging branches of medicine centered around replacing diseased or damaged tissue via innovative technological and biological techniques. A promising pathway in regenerative medicine focuses on harnessing the limitless potential of human stem cells—cells capable of transforming into any of the body’s various cell types.
The concept of long-term memory formation is an incredible phenomena which remains far from understood. How is it possible for the assembly of atoms and molecules that comprises the human brain to have the capacity to “remember?”
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