How Homes Should Prepare for a Green Future
As the movement away from fossil fuels and toward a greener future continues to build momentum, our buildings have become a focal point for the energy transition. The current popular strategy for...
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The Politics of Self Preservation in Seoul
In the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law on December 3, the country of South Korea faces an unknown future. In the short term, Yoon faces an impeachment. “What...
Double the Data: Neutrino Hunters Nearing Long-Sought Answer in Fundamental Physics
A presentation at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan in June 2024 included twice the data since the team comprising Fermilab’s NuMI Off-axis ν e Appearance (NOvA) experiment had last presented its...
Einstein May Have Been Right, but Is Our Understanding of Dark Energy Wrong?
For more than a century, astronomers around the globe have been challenging renowned physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. While the latest findings from the Dark Energy...
The Base of a Good Diet: Precision Health Study Makes Headway Two Years In
What’s the best diet? Are eggs good or bad for you? Are carbs the enemy? How much red meat and dairy should you be eating? For ages, questions such as these that involved personal nutrition have...
Are Shuttered Nuclear Power Plants the Solution for Powering AI?
The site of one of the United States’ worst nuclear accidents is making history again. Located just outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant that experienced a...
Lewis College Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Lewis College of Science and Letters is proud to introduce four new faculty members who join their respective departments ready to make a lasting impact on their students and advance their fields of...
Creating a Buzz
What can bumblebees teach us about the link between individuality, group behavior, and the brain? For Matthew Smith, who joined Illinois Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of biology at...
Federal Award Funds Breakthrough Startup
When Illinois Institute of Technology recently received federal funding to help researchers move their projects from the lab to the marketplace, they wanted undergraduates to get involved in a big way...
The Rising Problem of Stormwater Infrastructure Inequity
An uncommonly strong complex of thunderstorms, classified as a derecho, battered Illinois in mid-July, with 31 confirmed tornadoes and some areas recording more than seven inches of rainfall in 24...