As the excitement surrounding the recent discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson fades, evidence is building to support the notion that there may be more than one type of Higgs boson. Thought to imbue subatomic particles with mass via the Higgs field, the Higgs boson has been of particular interest...
Research on quantum entanglement is posed to make yet another leap forward as European researchers outline an experiment involving the International Space Station. Quantum entanglement, what Einstein termed “spooky action over a distance,” has remained puzzling to physicists since it was first predicted in the early years of quantum theory...
The Higgs boson, first theorized in 1964 by Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, is an elementary particle that explains why some particles have mass and others do not (1). The way in which the Higgs boson imbues elementary particles with mass can be described metaphorically with a snowy...
A team of geologists from the University of Oslo in Norway recently found evidence of a lost subcontinent under the Indian Ocean. The submerged landmass allegedly sunk during the break-up of the prehistoric supercontinent Rodinia, which once joined India and Madagascar 85 million years ago (1). Geologist Bjørn Jamtveit and...
On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid named “2012 DA14” is expected to fly past the Earth. The asteroid weighs approximately 130,000 metric tons, has a rough diameter of 45 meters, and has a speed eight times that of a high-powered rifle. If it were to collide with the Earth,...
In the fourth Science Pub of the academic year, Dr. Ryan Hickox of Dartmouth’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Dr. Jenny Greene of Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences led a discussion on black holes. Dr. Hickox explained that black holes are defined by their powerful gravitational forces. Black...
On January 18th, Professor Jenny Greene of Princeton’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences presented her current work on the outer stars of elliptical galaxies and the estimation of black hole mass in spiral galaxies.
Glenn Micalizio, an associate professor in the chemistry department at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, gave a presentation last Tuesday titled, “Metallacycle-Mediated Cross-Coupling: Reaction Development and Application in Stereoselective Synthesis,” which summarized his recent research which substantially expands of the scope and applications of a developing class of synthetic reactions aimed at selective carbon—carbon bond formation.
On Friday October 5th professor Ralph Gibson lectured on former Dartmouth President Ernest Fox Nichols as a part of the series of lectures for the American Physical Society’s designation of the Wilder Physics building as a historical site. Gibson began the seminar with the Crookes radiometer. The device is an encased...
The Wilder Physical Laboratory has been commemorated as an American Physical Society historic site for the work done by Dartmouth professors Nichols and Hull in measuring the radiation pressure of light in a macroscopic body in 1901-1903.
The Physiology of Stress: Cortisol and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis 
The Threats of Overfishing: Consequences at the Commercial Level Oil Spills: Severity and Consequences to Our Ecosystem Risk and Resilience in Children Coping with Parental Divorce The Mammalian Diving Reflex 
You Are What You Eat: How Food Affects Your Mood A Royal Shame: Prince Leopold’s Hemophilia and Its Effect on Medical Research 
Turning to Nanotechnology for Pollution Control: Applications of Nanoparticles Esophageal Cancer and the ‘Asian Glow’ Eutrophication in the Gulf of Mexico: How Midwestern farming practices are creating a ‘Dead Zone’ 
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