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Image courtesy of Flickr In the twenty-first century, it is nearly impossible to see adolescents not engaged in some kind of digital media. Video games are among the most popular digital pastimes, and parents are concerned. Parents often worry about excessive screen time, potential addiction, and the impact of playing video games on academics, physical ..read more
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Image courtesy of Marc Abrahams. Have you ever wondered about the physics behind why our cereal becomes soggy in milk, the most efficient way to turn a doorknob, an advanced toilet that analyzes what we excrete, or a method of identifying narcissists by looking at their eyebrows? The ideas may seem silly—improbable, even—but this is ..read more
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Image courtesy of Pixabay Imagine your weather forecast came from a seal swimming in the Pacific, or a bird flying hundreds of feet above you. This idea is rapidly becoming a reality in the world of climate research. As we face a biodiversity crisis driven by climate change, researchers are looking for new ways to ..read more
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Image Courtesy of Center for Open Science. Replication is a key tenet of the scientific method. In theory, any discovery should be reproducible with identical procedures. However, scientists have become increasingly aware that in practice, most studies’ findings may be irreplicable, hinting at systemic flaws deep within scholarly research. After all, how can science be ..read more
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Stuart Firestein, the former chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences, is a neuroscientist who studies the olfactory system, but he’s also an expert in something else—failure. In 2015, Firestein released a book, titled Failure: Why Science Is So Successful, that places failure at the heart of the scientific process. Firestein’s journey toward the ..read more
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Image courtesy of Yury Nikolaev. A light brush across the skin, the vibration of your phone in your hand when you receive a text, the sharp jab when you accidentally poke yourself with a pencil—we constantly receive various tactile stimuli, but how do our bodies sense these different types of touch? The skin contains many ..read more
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For women physicians, the gender gap contributes not only to lower salaries, but also to higher rates of burnout. On average, women physicians spend more time during each patient visit, often to counsel and educate patients, but this extra time has not historically been reflected in their pay. A recent Yale study analyzed electronic health ..read more
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How might life replay before death? Many survivors of near-death experiences have told stories about how every stage of life flashed before their eyes. These visions have ranged from moral evaluations of how their life was lived to highlights of their achievements and regrets. Until now, these were just stories—recounts from one person to another ..read more
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When ‘Oumuamua was discovered hurtling around the sun in October of 2017, it was the first large object from interstellar space ever seen in our solar system. ‘Oumuamua promised to be of enormous scientific value; as a remnant from a far-away solar system, it seemed to hold information about the way planets develop. In the ..read more
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Preface: The last magazine of each calendar year is, as per Yale Scientific Magazine tradition, a themed special issue. This letter, co-written by your outgoing 2023 managing team—Alex Dong, Madison Houck, and Sophia Li—examines why we have chosen to focus on failure as our central theme. We will also explain how each section of this ..read more