by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2020
By Val Fan, Winter 2020. In the East and West alike, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is often brushed off as a pseudoscience. Critics call it a placebo, and claim that its users are blinded by superstition. TCM boasts innumerable devoted followers in China, and not...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2020
By Emily Watters, Winter 2020. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women of all ethnic and racial groups in the United States, with 1 in 4 deaths resulting from heart disease each year [1]. As such, recent research has strived to attack this...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2020
By William Cerny, Winter 2020. With price tags in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, modern telescope projects are no small investments. Accordingly, only the observatories that can both optimize the quality of science and overcome a gambit of logistical...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2020
By Rose Cytryn, Winter 2020. As natural disasters, wars, and stories of political and economic instability grace the front pages of newspapers around the world, the effects of these phenomena are less eye grabbing and often not included in headlines. While articles...
by phoenigman | Jan 2, 2025 | spectrum, winter 2020
By Woojin Choi, Winter 2020. Science-related events rarely remain on the news cycle for more than a day or two. In 2018 a Chinese scientist used the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system to genetically alter a human embryo’s genome. The world of science responded swiftly,...
