Author: Tiffany Xian
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Click-y LEGO® Chemistry!
When it comes to the natural world, humanity has extreme difficulty imitating organic processes. From spider silk to bird flight, natural processes, while understood, can be near impossible to produce with human technology. The generation of organic molecules remained such a struggle, up until the foundational development of bioorthogonal click chemistry: a class of simple,…
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How Special is Relativity?
On a warm, sunny evening in the spring of 1905, the notorious Albert Einstein embarked on a fateful ride home. As his tramcar sped away from a turret clock in the distance, the theory of special relativity was born. Einstein imagined that if the tram was to travel away from the clock near the speed…