by Jonathan Lee (’22) | March 29, 2021 Manifesting every action, experience, feeling, memory, and thought, the brain is the most complex organ in the human body. This compact and wrinkly gelatinous […]
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Electrical brain activity linked to internal thought processes
by Kylie Chen (’24) | March 29, 2021 While working on different tasks, people often tend to zone out or let their minds wander to other subjects. When will I be done […]
The failure of modern AI: biased data and underrepresentation in tech
by Boladale Erogbogbo (’23) | March 29, 2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has the potential to simplify our increasingly complex world. AI can function as a valuable tool in processing information that […]
Boladale Erogbogbo
Boladale Erogbogbo (’23) is currently the Vol. 59 Sports Editor for The Lancer. He was a Contributing Writer for Vol. 58 and a Staff Writer for Vol. 57.
Sudeepthi Ravipati
Sudeepthi Ravipati (’24) is currently a Science Editor for Vol. 60 of The Lancer. She was also a Staff Writer for Vol. 58.
AI-zheimer’s prediction using AI
by Kylie Chen (’24) | March 1, 2021 Currently, almost six million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, a number projected to rise to 13.8 million by 2050. Despite the increasingly high numbers […]
Tea on Tech: the Internet of Things
by Nikita Senthil (’23) | March 1, 2021 With its widespread impact across industries and on regular consumers, the Internet of Things (IoT), in the past few years, has become one of […]
Pandemic Panacea: Vaccine development and distribution
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | March 1, 2021 Since the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were approved for emergency use authorization last December, people have been lining up to receive the vaccine, even […]
The future for pet food: lab-grown meat
by Jonathan Lee (’22) | March 1, 2021 Over quarantine, as many families tried to fill the emptiness of their homes, a sudden surge of pet adoptions struck America. The rush to […]
Artificial intelligence accelerated by light
by Rohit Khorana (’24) | March 1, 2021 Sixty years ago, most people would have found the concept of self-driving cars to be something from a sci-fi story. Today, however, it is […]
What’s up with WhatsApp?
by Ayush Raj (’23) | March 1, 2021 It’s an app used by more than one billion people across the globe to stay in touch. Its users send 65 billion messages and […]
Jonathan Lee
Jonathan Lee (’22) is the Vol. 58 Science Editor for The Lancer. He was also a Staff Writer for Vol. 57.
How do pandemics end?
by Kylie Chen (’24) | November 16, 2020 Throughout history, pandemic outbreaks have wreaked havoc and destruction throughout the world. Now, yet again, a virus has swept through countries, infecting millions worldwide. […]
Pandemic Panacea: vaccine and therapy innovation
by Arhana Aatresh (’23) | November 16, 2020 The global death toll due to the COVID-19 pandemic peaked at 1,319,267 cases on November 15 and is skyrocketing as the U.S. continues to […]
Tea on Tech: 5G connectivity
by Nikita Senthil (’23) | November 16, 2020 Despite its initial introduction in October 2018 by Verizon, the buzz over 5G has only recently picked up steam, with internet service providers and […]
With deepfakes, seeing is not believing
by Ayush Raj (’23) | November 16, 2020 In March 2019, the CEO of a UK-based energy company received a call from his German parent company’s leader with an order to transfer […]
Female scientists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work on CRISPR
by Rohit Khorana (’24)| November 16, 2020 In October 2020, Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry at UC Berkeley, and Emanuelle Charpentier, Managing Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of […]
Navaneeth Dontuboyina
Navaneeth Dontuboyina (’24) is a Staff Writer for The Lancer.
Of machines and morality: the ethical dilemma of AI
by Navaneeth Dontuboyina (’24) | November 16, 2020 We have always thought of machines as objects that exist solely to benefit us—and perhaps rightfully so. We build them, so we can use […]