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35 posts tagged "science"

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Can we live without human contact?

Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, October 30, 2020

I don’t know about you, but I really miss hugging people when I greet them. When I’m having a tough day or I’m feeling overwhelmed, a tight hug has always made me feel better. During the pandemic, I, among many others, I presume, have noticed a strangely stealthy gaping absence in our lives: human touch.

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Accepted SMC students to attend STEM Preview Weekend

Genevieve Coleman | Friday, February 14, 2020

On Saturday, accepted first year students will come to Saint Mary’s to attend the third annual science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) weekend. In an email, assistant director of admissions Bekah Stanton described the event as one designed for incoming Belles interested in the sciences. “STEM Preview Weekend is an exclusive event for students admitted

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First, do no harm

Ellie Dombrowski | Thursday, March 7, 2019

Stuart Little, The Rats of Nimh, Charlotte’s Web. Penicillin, meningitis vaccines, antibody therapy. These are sides of a spectrum I could not reconcile. If you are like I was, these two lists first appear unrelated. Much to my dismay, rats have been instrumental in the development of medicine. I learned this when I applied to

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Notre Dame engineers research exoskeleton technology

Mary Clare Donnelly | Monday, December 3, 2018

Notre Dame engineers Patrick Wensing, an assistant professor of engineering, and second-year Ph.D. student Taylor Gambon are working in collaboration with a company to improve exoskeletons — wearable mobile machines meant to support the body. “It is a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation in collaboration with a company called Ekso Bionics that

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Two hot Hemsworths: an analysis of attraction

Julianna Conley | Friday, November 30, 2018

I’d like to preface this article by saying I’m not even a fan of the Hemsworth brothers. Collectively, I’ve seen three movies they were in — and neither brother was the main star in any of them. This study isn’t about the Hemsworths. Or about who’s hotter. It’s about science. On Nov. 5 at 12:19

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Space and silence

Show Some Skin | Thursday, November 8, 2018

 At some point much sooner than when the Sun explodes and becomes a white dwarf The Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. when this happens, there is a very small chance almost no chance that the Earth or our sun will crash into matter from Andromeda and be destroyed in the collision because

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University salutatorian reflects on time at Notre Dame

Tom Naatz | Friday, May 18, 2018

When she was first accepted to Notre Dame, class of 2018 salutatorian Harisa Spahić wasn’t sure she wanted to come to the University. During the spring of her senior year of high school, the self-described “townie”, who was born in Germany to a Bosnian family and lived in Idaho before her family relocated to northern

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How to have the best Christmas, according to science

Sarah Cate Baker | Wednesday, November 29, 2017

1. Put your decorations up as early as possible. Psychologists at the McKeown Clinic believe that people who put up Christmas decorations early are happier, and since some news outlets called them experts (fake news?), it’s believable. Alternatively, you could just never take down you Christmas decorations, and then you could be lazy and happy.

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New club addresses major health issues in America

Natalie Weber | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Junior Jean Llenos said he wanted to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the general public. So when he learned that The Health Guardians of America was looking to found a chapter at Notre Dame, he submitted an application to be the club’s founding president. “Science is very important,” he said. “We need

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Harper Cancer Research Institute works in pursuit of cure

Sofia Madden | Friday, September 8, 2017

Since its formation in 2011, the Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute has been integrative and collaborative in its founding principles. Originally presented as an intentional partnership between the University and the Indiana School of Medicine – South Bend according to the Institutes’s website, the Institute has encouraged the fusion of differences in subject,

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After a win against Louisville on Saturday, The Ba After a win against Louisville on Saturday, The Basement Breakdown, The Observer’s sports podcast, is back with some Pittsburgh predictions.  Some highlights from the stream include:

🏈Last Saturday’s 12-7 final score against Louisville (0:23)

🏈Taking a look around college football with Georgia falling to Alabama, Florida State getting its first FBS win against North Carolina and the Big Ten returning this weekend. (14:52)

🏈Fact-or Fiction. This episode’s hot takes include: ND’s first defensive touchdown coming against Pitt? Can the Irish produce a 100-yard rusher against the Panthers’ defense? Did the Louisville win actually give Notre Dame the blueprint for beating Clemson? (20:20)

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