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If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces and food. Learning how they react to space conditions is critical, but they could also be invaluable fellows in our endeavor to explore space.
Bill Murphy became interested in the night sky as a kid in the 1960s, as man was attempting to land on the moon.
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A research report published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how the rapid digitalization of the retail food environment is reshaping food access in the United States and highlights implications for public health nutrition research, practice, and policy. The authors describe how online grocery platforms, mobile food delivery applications, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital marketing are transforming the way consumers encounter and purchase food.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way scientists discover and design new materials. In a specially invited review published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Tohoku University researchers highlight how large AI models are redefining catalyst discovery and paving the way for faster, smarter innovation in clean energy and sustainable technologies.
It's such a simple question. Deceptively simple, even. Whether it's meeting your roommate for the first time or waiting awkwardly in line at Levering Kitchens, I'm sure many of us have encountered this staple of small talk. Answering this question should be easy - second nature by now. Yet it's one I've always struggled to respond to.My default has been "I like to read and write," but recently, saying that has never felt more like a blatant lie. As the realities of university life sink in, the responsibilities, deadlines and pressure consume me. The time I have for writing slowly dwindled to nothing. How can I call myself a writer when I don't write at all?People often say if you truly enjoy something, you'll always have time for it. But how easily writing was squeezed out of my schedule suggested otherwise. If it's not the process of writing I am drawn to, then what is it about the role that is so appealing that makes it my instinctual answer when someone asks what I enjoy?The answer is simple: I love stories. They are the fundamental methods I understand the world with. When the chaos of an indeterminate future and a dwindling pointless past overwhelms, the power of stories becomes so distinguishing as an arbiter of order. It is a way of explaining there is meaning in the ways the world functions - that this tiny, fleeting moment of existence is part of some timeless, endless celestial saga.But all this grand talk of the power of stories has ultimately amounted to nothing prior to this year. I started telling people my favorite medium to write in is "unfinished plotlines" because it was the truth. I figured the image of a writer I had for myself is entirely fictional. I don't have any sort of awards or portfolio or credentials that should qualify me for this role. I didn't consume literary works or truly enjoy analyzing and dissecting stories to fit some sort of theme. My favorite author is Tolkien and my favorite series is The Lord of the Rings because I never had the time to develop more niche interests. I write when I feel like it, and most of the time, I don't. When I do, it's probably because I pre-set deadlines and responsibilities, so I force myself to follow through (thank you, magazine submission).These and much more were facts I told myself. Only recently did I understand these affirmations inhibited me from actually writing: I told myself I was not ready, was not enough, that trying was futile, before I had ever tried. How could this end in anything but a waste of time? How could I dream of telling stories of the transition from isolation and despair to hope and love, when I had not even gone through that transformation?Of course, the first step toward change is recognizing the problem. While watching a Brandon Sanderson interview during winter break, I was captivated by what he said. He knew many who never published their first novels, but none who regretted writing them. There is no "correct" time to start writing, and life will never wait for me to be "ready" to start telling stories."Getting started" is what I have done. This year, I picked up a Writing Seminars minor and started really plotting and writing my first novel! Even if I am pursuing an engineering major, my love for stories shouldn't be changed because of it. A creative mindset is a useful asset in any field, after all.I don't feel ready to claim the role of a "writer" yet, but I know that I will get there eventually because, for once, I am actually writing.Shuwen Zheng is a freshman majoring in Computer Engineering from San Jose, Calif.
One morning, I woke up to find my phone charger unceremoniously tugged to the floor, in the space between my bed and the window ledge where it was originally placed. And as I did the usual awkward reach into that crevice, I realized that the loss of my phone and the subsequent back pain for its retrieval were punishment. The skein of baby pink yarn on that same ledge, studded with my 0.7 mm crochet hook, was tangled with my charging cable. My toxic situationship wanted attention, and it had decided that aggressively strangling my phone was the best way to receive it.Crochet is the hobby I return to every time my life becomes even slightly complicated. I caught the "yarn bug" in response to severe exhaustion after sophomore year and peer pressure from my best friend. The first project I completed was that summer: a slightly anemic, messy pink heart that probably fell apart in a few hours (though I can't be sure of this since I have no idea where it went). But progression was faster than I'd expected. My first "successful" project, completed just a few months later, was far more beautiful - a bandanna with gold chains and strawberry beads dangling from the edge.Crochet has been my rock through heartbreak, an enabler for my severe procrastination on schoolwork and above all, the bane of my existence - a complexity I am perpetually shocked by because I love crochet. I love working with my hands instead of picking at my fingers. I love watching a row of stitches materialize, especially when I've managed to make the "inter-stitch" spaces perfectly even. I love when, after four or five rows, my somewhat more complete product resembles the video tutorial at which I've been intently squinting for hours.But at the same time, there are few moments when I am more frustrated than mid-crochet project. Anyone who has dabbled in the craft knows the frustration of a dropped stitch or uneven yarn tension. Both casualties yield final products that are studded with holes and bumps, a fate that has befallen many of my earlier projects.But my first successful project taught me the worst part of crochet: counting. Counting stitches and rows is the root of my commitment issues with crochet. Especially as a beginner, uneven edges and stitches in wrong orientations almost had me reconsidering multiple monumental life decisions, including being an engineering major. (Because how do I survive a field built on math if I can't even tell the difference between the fifth and sixth stitch of the row?)I am not beholden to or obligated to keep pursuing this somewhat torturous lover of mine. It indulges my unhealthiest tendencies. Crochet's intricacies feed my anal-retentive perfectionism. It leaves marks on my skin in calluses and scars from working the yarn and the hook - a visible, painful, yet slightly discolored, sign of my hard work. It leaves a burning behind my eyes and blurs my vision; it leaves scars on my brain in the shape of the scraping of my metal hook against my fingernails.Am I masochistic for it? Is it really so bad? To have scars and bruises that are not self-inflicted? To see evidence of my hard work within a few rows instead of on a midterm that is months later? To squint over stitches instead of books? Isn't it worth it to have my brain hurt from piecing apart patterns instead of piecing apart a particularly frustrating problem set?There is so much relief in putting all this effort into something that yields a product that feels so real, that leaves so much proof behind. So no matter how many times I reconsider my commitment, I will still return to my love. I'll sit on the bed or in my living room and stitch and unstitch infinite swatches of yarn until black dots swim in my eyes. I'll do the little awkward stretch to reach for my phone every time crochet rears its ugly head and feels abandoned for too long. We're not breaking up quite yet.Shreya Tiwari is a junior majoring in Biomedical Engineering from Austin, Texas. She is a Managing Editor for The News-Letter.
I constantly carry the guilt of not reading as much as I used to as a kid. I wonder where she is now (along with the red bendable book light my dad gifted me): the girl who would hide under her comforter so that she could binge-read the books of Ipek Ongun, Stefan Zweig, Resat Nuri Guntekin.Obviously, this is not to say I haven't read at all since my childhood; it just felt like I never read enough. The excitement of reading a book I like, being so captivated that it's all I can think about, yapping about it to my friends and urging them to read it - these things never changed. I felt the same way about books at every age. In my experience, it even felt like a chain reaction: If I took the first step, simply opening the first page and reading the first sentence, the rest would follow, and my exhilaration would grow exponentially with every page I turned.But somehow, as I grew older, taking that first step became more and more difficult, and I started reading less and less. When did reading start feeling like a chore rather than leisure? Was it when books started coming in the form of homework, something I was obligated to do? Or was it when the pressure of reading more "serious stuff" got more intense with every passing year?Getting to the root of this problem took a reflection. I started comparing this phenomenon - which I named "The Struggle of Taking the First Step" - to other areas of my life. In what other parts of my routine do I struggle to start, but once I begin, the rest feels like a downward slope?Here's one example. The News-Letter general meetings are held on Mondays at 7 p.m., and although I love our paper, editors and "Gatehome" with all my heart, sometimes I dread leaving the comfort of my home. Pushing myself into the sweet chaos of running a paper - discussing the coverage of serious topics and managing people - is difficult to convince myself to do. But whenever I walk in and take my usual position to host the editors' meeting, I remember why I do it every week. The work we do is stressful, frequently exhausting and requires sacrifice, but I love the end result: achieving something this big and continuing such a tradition alongside so many people surrounding me.Reading a book feels similar. I know that it will become my next obsession if I manage to sit down and read the first page of Jane Eyre, My Year of Rest and Relaxation or Lord of the Flies. But, quite frankly, reading a book is stressful (What if I don't like it and can't finish it, or worse, don't understand it?), frequently exhausting (as it feels much easier to open Netflix after 12 hours of productivity sucks the life out of me) and requires sacrifice (Should I prepare my cheat sheet for the Kinetics midterm or read one more chapter?).This past winter break, the first day I checked my to-do list and saw no pressing items, I made it my mission to regain my reading habit and make my inner child feel fulfilled once again. In one month, I actually made decent progress: I finished Wuthering Heights, The Pilgrimage and The Count of Monte Cristo; I even started reading Don Quixote and The Gambler, although my reading consistency had to decrease with the start of a busy semester. During this journey, I came up with three key rules that helped me feel less intimidated by reading (and, more importantly, remain consistent with it).Force yourself to read the first page, but don't pressure yourself into finishing it. There were multiple points in my life where the chain reaction never activated, although I made myself read through numerous chapters. Sometimes, a book is just not for you. Back in high school, Tolstoy's War and Peace made me never want to read again. Although this means I might never get to read such a renowned classic, at least it didn't make me sour on reading forever. Don't traumatize yourself - follow what genuinely piques your interest!Don't compare your reading pace to others'. This is one of the reasons why I don't use Goodreads. If you can read 20 books in one month, congrats! That will unfortunately never be me, and seeing others being better at reading will only make me feel bad about myself. So, I keep to myself and read at peace.Understand that what you read is more important than how many pages you go through. When I look at my failed attempts at making reading a habit, I noticed it was mostly because I attempted to read hard-to-understand books. My pace would slow down as I'd spend more time than usual on each page to digest it well. It would eventually seem like I wasn't making any progress, so I'd stop reading altogether. Now, when this happens, I remind myself that this is natural; as long as I like the book, it doesn't matter whether I go through 10 or 100 pages in one day.I hope that the three rules I came up with for myself will either help you regain your reading habit or inspire you to come up with your own. Don't let Hopkins make you feel like your brain is too fried to read for fun. Today, convince yourself to pick a book and open the first page.Buse Koldas is a junior from Istanbul, Turkey majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She is an Editor-in-Chief for The News-Letter.
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I have been a dancer since I was three years old, following my older sister's footsteps and proudly wearing her hand-me-down tap shoes. So naturally, when I saw her start theater, I knew I'd inevitably follow her down that route as well (though I didn't start until high school). Although initially I thought she was against the idea of sharing her hobby with me, she grew to love the moments we got to share on stage. It was such an honor getting to watch her senior year musical - not from the audience - but on the stage with her.After we graduated high school, we diverged - she focused on dance, and I focused on theater. She got into a Modern Dance program, and I got into a BFA Acting Program, which put me at a roadblock. It was for a prestigious acting program, and I had received the scholarship to attend, but ultimately decided to come to Hopkins, agreeing with myself to pursue my theatrical interests as an extracurricular. At least, that was the plan.I had done a gig before at a local professional theater as a role in the ensemble my junior year of high school, and the next thing I knew, I was getting an invitation from the director to audition for a one-man show at this professional theater. I had seen the casting call but didn't think of auditioning, thinking I was too young, but apparently, that wasn't the case. That was also the summer I booked my first contract as an assistant choreographer. It seemed as if the more theater I was doing, the more roles and contracts I was booking. That's when it hit me - this wasn't a hobby anymore, this was becoming a career.Don't get me wrong, I love theater. I mean, there is a reason why I still do it as much as I do. It's how I met my friends, and spending such an immense amount of time delving into a character and their intentions is wonderful. However, having an extracurricular that is now a potential career path creates a complicated dynamic between the two. Sometimes, I feel a profound level of pressure to do another production, to take on another role, solely for the purpose of having another credit and skill set on my resume. Because of this, theater isn't a source of relaxation for me anymore; it's a source for networking and gaining new skillsets.This year, I have made it a goal to limit the theater I do. It doesn't mean auditioning less per se, but rather, auditioning with more intention. Sure, I could apply to countless casting calls, but frankly, that's tiring. I didn't want to become one of the many artists who feel the need to chuck themselves into their next production, solely for the idea that if they don't, they'll soon be forgotten. Instead, I'm making it a goal to audition for what shows or roles I truly love. I've already booked my third summer contract as assistant choreographer at my local theater, and frankly, coming into a season of shows I truly love with a dream-team production team, I couldn't be more excited.Finnigan Keane is a sophomore majoring in Archaeology and Environmental Studies from Margate City, N.J.
Recently, I have taken up meditation. It is one of those things you turn to when you fall into a post-grad quarter-life crisis in your early twenties (you'll know what I'm talking about when the time comes, trust me). I had hoped that always being told I am "mature for my age" would have saved me from such a fate, but alas, I succumbed to it alongside all of my friends once the summer after college graduation ended. Left with a choice between getting really into rock-climbing or trying to become an influencer, I decided to take the third option: turning to meditation and going on a quest to "find myself" instead. So starting this semester, I began a ritual of daily meditation, meditating for 15 minutes every day right after I wake up.Surprisingly, my first attempt was easier than I thought. Concentrated on my breathing and determined to be mindful, the 15 minutes passed in the blink of an eye, the timer startling me as it went off unexpectedly soon. Yet counter-intuitively, it seemed to get harder with each passing day. After the novelty of the first time, familiarity with my newfound routine began to undermine me. With repetition, I found my brain drifting off more and more each day, now comfortable enough to switch into autopilot. My thoughts would wander, contemplating what I had to do for the day and planning out my schedule. Repeated attempts to gently guide it back to the task at hand only seemed to serve as a temporary solution before my mind wandered off once more. Even now, four weeks into my journey with meditation, I find it impossible to replicate the magic of that first time.It seems ridiculous to me that meditating for a mere 15 minutes could prove to be so hard. After all, doing nothing should be the easiest task of all. But meditation isn't just about passing the time. You can't get anything out of it by simply investing the time; you have to be actively engaged in the practice. And while I'd like to think of myself as a disciplined person, meditation provided a different type of challenge. I couldn't just brute force my way through sheer willpower like I could with running or working out, and I couldn't outwork the problem or find special tricks like I could with school. All it asked of me was to be present. Yet somehow that seemed too much.In an era that has conditioned our generation to expect constant stimulation, stillness feels impossible. In a society that idolizes efficiency, letting precious seconds drift by feels like a crime. Worst of all, sitting in my own chaotic and frightening head without distraction feels insurmountable.But perhaps that is the whole point. As Marcus Aurelius points out in his conveniently titled work Meditations, "No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into [your] own mind." The sanctuary of our own thoughts is one we must occupy and coexist with for our entire lives. Thus, if we are able to turn it into a sanctuary, then we will have access to a retreat more precious and valuable than anything else. My hope is that through careful meditation, one day I can sort through the mess that comprises my inner landscape and turn it into a paradise into which I can retreat in my times of need.Moreover, while time may be a valuable currency, time does not lend itself to being hoarded or micromanaged. Desperately clutching onto the seconds we have, white-knuckled, will do nothing to abate its flow through our fingers. It is the infinite paradox of life that we must realize our time is valuable, but we must not let that awareness drum us up into a panic, anxiously grasping at the fleeting sands of time, or else we shall lose the value of that time itself.So while I have yet to attain an enlightenment to lift me out of my quarter-life crisis, I think I will keep at it in hopes of learning these lessons. And perhaps one day I can teach my brain to stop thinking about the future and the past and to simply exist in and appreciate the present.Jason Chang is a first-year graduate student majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Woodbury, Minn.
Humans, and especially college students, love the idea of "optimizing" their time. We've all heard variations of these statements: How do I put in the least amount of work to get my intended result? How many hours should I spend on this activity to get to a specific level? What's the latest I can start studying to still pass this exam? Will joining this fun club prevent me from doing my work?Being at a university so focused on pre-professional development and career placements provides constant positive reinforcement for this mindset.But we also do things just because we find them fun and personally enriching. These are our side quests. True side quests should be done for the love of the game, independent of any career goal (see "Your Second Greatest Love"). But even though they are done out of love, these quests should be treated just as seriously and with equal standards as a "main" quest. Here's an example from my own life.It started with a few innocent trips to the Hopkins Bouldering Cave with my roommates. Then I visited Movement Hampden for the first time. I stared in awe at the climbers projecting impossible V7-9 climbs while barely being able to make my way up the beginner V2 climbs.Then summer break hit, and I found myself with many more free afternoons. What better way to spend it than to purchase the rights to scale brightly colored plastic holds drilled into a plastic wall?I started off with no qualms. But then I realized: wow - this is an expensive hobby. Not only is the gym membership $80 per month, but I also need to buy $200 climbing shoes, "premium" magnesium carbonate climbing chalk and an aesthetic bag to carry the "premium" chalk.And there were the physical downsides too: a constant web of bruises and cuts on all 4 limbs, completely ground-down finger skin, excruciating torn calluses (flappers), soreness lasting weeks.And not only that, there was an entirely new language I had to learn. The climbing gym was filled with people speaking in tongues. Over time, I slowly started picking up terms until that primordial alphabet soup congealed into understandable sentences. "Ah, so that's what an arete is." "Ohhh, that's what a bardoor is."Soon, I started speaking the language myself. It goes a little something like this: "Traverse right to the crimp, then dyno to that nice hold (it's a jug). After that, reverse flag to reach that pinch and match. Then make sure to do a drop knee before making that committing move, and then top out."Don't forget the fact that I needed to allocate three hours of my day to climbing, which basically made it a part-time job.Through all this physical, financial and linguistic pain, I continued. Why did I stay with something that hurt me and drained my summer internship stipend?It's that satisfaction I got from finally sending a hard climb or a hard move: slowly seeing the grades of my projects go up. It's discovering the intricacies of balancing on slab climbs, making dynamic coordination moves and maintaining tension on overhang climbs. Though I don't consider myself a "good" climber yet, I see myself getting stronger and climbing harder. And that constant visible improvement keeps me coming back.I've learned that side quests shouldn't be given up on a whim (unless I really hate it, then I guess I'll give it up). Just because I failed to send any hard climbs today doesn't mean I've lost my love for climbing itself. It feels good to improve at something, to get stronger at a set of skills you, sometimes arbitrarily, place value in. My climbing membership is $80 a month (please use my referral so I can get $25 off), but I still keep going because I believe the benefits I gain from climbing are worth that monetary value.So even while pursuing side quests, you will fail. But these efforts are never wasted. They permeate your life and become a part of you. You find yourself growing passionate about your quests and sharing them with your friends. And though side quests may sometimes seem like irrational time sinks, if you truly love one, you will trust that it will continue to be rewarding even through all the failure and discomfort. Trust that it will make you a better person - a person with a couple more skills in their bag, more stories to tell and a new language to speak.Everyone is just one person at the end of the day. We can only do so much with our time, so it seems tempting to put all our eggs in the career basket. But there's so much more about life than just your career. So who knows, maybe your next chance encounter could turn into your lifelong side quest.Alex Pan is a sophomore majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Dallas, Texas. He is a Science & Technology Editor for The News-Letter.
"Today I'm grateful for... oh wait, I have to remember to... I really want to make sourdough bread..."Three pages of writing, whatever comes to mind. That's all it is.I have always kept a journal but have never been consistent with writing in it. When I was a little kid, the pages were more or less filled with my frustration about situations like my sister eating the last popsicle. However, my entries have evolved, and I now have finally acquired a habit of journaling.In search of a way to revamp my life with the new year approaching, I searched YouTube and came across many motivational personal growth videos, all with similar headlines along the lines of "Goal Setting in 2026" or "Maximizing Productivity." While watching a myriad of these over breaks, I stumbled across one that recommended the simple exercise: just writing until three pages are full.Previously, I had attempted to answer journaling prompts designed to make you think deeply about yourself regularly. I often found myself trying to craft the perfect, philosophical and insightful response - even when I didn't always have that response within me. Those types of prompts can be beneficial for self-growth, but they do not feel sustainable to incorporate on a daily basis. It's hard to be in the right headspace to think and write in such a way all the time, especially when getting further into the semester, where there is an exam to study for every week. In fact, rather than feeling like an opportunity to write freely and relieve stress, journaling had started to feel like writing for a neglected assignment due at 11:59 p.m. - failing to do so one day would ruin the continuity aesthetic of dates in my journal.Contrary to having fixed prompts, this journaling exercise asks for only one thing: just start writing. Starting can often be the hardest part, but with this exercise, it's surprisingly easy, as you can even begin with the line "I don't know what to write," which I have done many times. But naturally, I still manage to fill up all three pages with text. With this exercise, I no longer feel pressure to craft a coherent masterpiece that reveals something about my innermost self.Looking through my entries, I see run-on sentences, fragments, and both unfinished and complete thoughts that somehow made sense in the moment, but I can't make sense of them now. And that's okay. These entries are simply a tangible piece of my stream of consciousness. Whether I write about the tasks I have for that day or lessons of the past and future, doing so helps me get the day going and gives me a soothing sensation of mental clarity.Moreover, aside from serving as a resort where my thoughts can freely float and relax along a lazy river, my journal has witnessed some pondering thoughts spring into action.I had seen countless social media posts of people enthusiastically involved with the sourdough making process, from them feeding their sourdough starters to the ASMR of cutting into a freshly baked, crunchy and airy loaf.Baking bread has always been in the back of my head, and randomly mentioned in my journal entries, but a friend and I finally got our hands on a sourdough starter and successfully baked our first loaf.Although purchasing bread may be more time-efficient, there is just something about making it from scratch that brings me this unmatched feeling of joy and fulfillment I wouldn't get from just consuming store-bought bread. Stretching and folding the dough every 30 minutes and waiting for it to rise seems tedious and tests my patience - yet it is also a therapeutic and calming experience.All in all, I can foresee a sourdough era coming ahead. It's been interesting to witness how this habit of journaling has been helping with my work-life balance - both in a mental health sense and in a literal sense, as there is so much potential for the lingering thoughts I have written on these pages to manifest into side quests.Catherine Chan is a freshman majoring in Public Health and Molecular and Cellular Biology from Potomac, Md. She is a Social Media Manager for The News-Letter.
The energy in a middle school classroom is quite unpredictable. On any given afternoon, I might be greeted by a whirlwind of high-energy sixth graders or a group of exhausted students winding down after a long day. As a Head Mentor for the Charm City Stem League (CCSL), I've learned that my most important job isn't just teaching science; it's meeting students exactly where they are emotionally and turning that energy into a productive, inspired hour of discovery and curiosity.CCSL is a Hopkins program driven by a singular vision: a future where every student in Baltimore City has the opportunity to explore STEM, build the confidence to excel in technical careers and form lasting bonds with mentors. Under the leadership of Amanda Valledor, our team of undergraduate and graduate students support Maryland Science Olympiad across Divisions A, B and C. Some of our impacts are felt through tangible resources. We create custom kits, over 80 in total, that transform abstract concepts into hands-on fun. Whether that be "analyzing your own fingerprints" for Forensics or practicing "Crime Busters" techniques, these materials are designed to spark curiosity. But beyond the kits, CCSL is built on a sophisticated infrastructure of student leadership from Tournament and Curriculum Coordinators to Mentor Engagement leads, all working to ensure our volunteers are prepared to succeed.This semester, my commitment as a Head Mentor involves leading a team of undergraduate volunteers to facilitate weekly sessions for students in grades 6-8. While I coordinate logistics and design activities for up to 23 Science Olympiad topics, the magical moments make themselves apparent in the small quiet pockets of struggle and breakthrough.Recently, during a session at my assigned school, I was working with three students on Experimental Design. We were playing "Statistical Squares," a dice game designed to teach mean, median, mode and range. One student, overwhelmed by converting improper fractions into mixed numbers, began to pull back. He was defeated, ready to quit as his peers moved ahead. In that moment, I drew on the scenario-based training we focus on in our CCSL mentor meetings. I tried to avoid just giving him the answer and instead stepped in with a "pizza analogy" to simplify the fractions and even throw in some humor to lower the stakes. By maintaining an empathetic tone and focusing on the process rather than the mistake, I saw his frustration melt into a soft engagement! This translational experience is what makes CCSL so valuable to me. It taught me that being a leader doesn't mean having all the answers; it means being a goal post, a present and constant source of support.The head mentor role has fundamentally reshaped my understanding of leadership. Through our buddy system, where experienced mentors guide newcomers, I've participated in a beautiful exchange of knowledge. I've learned that effective communication isn't limited to our session update forms or requesting kits on time; it's about understanding the diverse backgrounds of the students we serve. My time volunteering at Baltimore middle schools has taught me that every student is genuinely special. Their unique perspectives are something to be celebrated, never discouraged. CCSL has given me the tools to be a better leader and a more empathetic person, but most importantly, it has allowed me to spread the joy of science to the next generation of Baltimore's innovators. As I look toward the rest of the year, I am grateful for the Science Olympiad joy that innervates our community, something that I hope stays with my students long after the competitions end.Eesha Bellad is a sophomore majoring in Neuroscience from Orange County, Calif. She is a Copy Editor for The News-Letter.
I started therapy a couple of weeks ago (sorry, I know that I have a tendency to overshare in these articles). At one of our first appointments, my therapist asked me what I do for "fun." In response, I just stared at her - jaw slacked, and eyes glossed over, like she just asked me to do cartwheels across the harbor."For fun?" I thought. Let's see: I am a full-time student, I'm obsessed with research and I refresh my email like I'm collecting its rent. Honestly, "fun" seems more like going to the dentist than having hobbies without deadlines.I wish that I could say that I hiked... or that I brew my own mead... or that I bake sourdough bread like that girl from Sidechat who started selling loaves for fun.Say goodbye to Kaylee and hello to your favorite trash panda. I have an addiction to hoarding ticket stubs, CVS receipts, the cardboard sleeves from my Starbucks hot chocolate and wristbands from fraternity parties. I peel off every label and tape down such a ridiculous number of fortune cookie fortunes that I think I could write a novel of predictions with them.My friends think I'm insane when I ask for their leftover cafe receipts and whip out my Polaroid at every given chance. I will physically chase someone down the hall for their ticket stubs that they were about to throw away and keep my eyes glued to the ground for hidden treasure because I refuse to let evidence that I am alive end up in a trashcan.My favorite part about scrapbooking is being able to put parts of my life together in a way that I never would have thought could blend. From a ribbon found on the ground next to a gas pump back home to a lab safety sticker that I peeled off my goggles, my spreads have become prophecy, and my artistry has become a cross-examination.In all honesty, it started because my brain loves to lie to me. Like my paper for my class on Margaret Atwood, it constantly edits out my efforts and spotlights my horrible mistakes. Depression has this really neat ability to delete my consciousness. It tells me that I didn't do anything all day and that I didn't try. It tells me that I'm unproductive and a burden to those around me because I couldn't get out of bed to attend classes. Scrapbooking is thus my rebuttal.Example 1: The receipt from the day that I bought groceries instead of skipping dinner.Example 2: The photo booth strips from the day that I mustered up the strength to cover an event for The News-Letter in D.C.Example 3: My torn-up doctor's note from when I went to treat my strep throat instead of pretending that the problem would disappear.So when I began putting these puzzle pieces of my life together as a job to come to terms with my crippling depression, it stopped being about perfection. My boyfriend is definitely getting sick of my gluing when I FaceTime him nightly, but I still lay out everything on the Bradford floor as if solving a murder where the victims were stickers. With each piece, I ask myself: Did I go outside? Did I answer my emails? Did I try to be happy today? I've accepted that I glue my mood into cardstock, even if other people track theirs in spreadsheets.For me, scrapbooking has become the most important job I have. It's not about creating something aesthetic, but about distracting myself from the narrative that I'm useless. It's work for my existence - as bleak as that may sound - and clocking in Sunday nights is how I prove that I am still here.Kaylee Nguyen is a sophomore majoring in Medicine, Science and the Humanities and Writing Seminars from Pensacola, Fla. She is a News & Features Editor for The News-Letter.
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San Francisco startup Anthropic continues to ship new AI products and services at a blistering pace, despite a messy ongoing dispute with the U.S. Department of War.Today, the company announced Claude Marketplace, a new offering that lets enterprises with an existing Anthropic spend commitment apply part of it toward tools and applications powered by Anthropic's Claude models but made and offered by external partners including GitLab, Harvey, Lovable, Replit, Rogo and Snowflake.According to Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace FAQ, the program is designed to simplify procurement and consolidate AI spend. Anthropic says the Marketplace is now in limited preview and that enterprises interested in using it should reach out to their Anthropic account team to get started.For customers interested in the Marketplace, Anthropic says purchases made through it “count against a portion of your existing Anthropic commitment,” and that the company will manage invoicing for partner spend — meaning enterprises can use part of their existing Anthropic commitment to buy Claude-powered partner solutions without separately handling partner invoicing.In effect, Anthropic is positioning Claude Marketplace as a more centralized way for enterprises to procure certain Claude-powered partner tools.Yet, the whole point of Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Cowork applications for many users was that they could shift enterprise spend and time away from current third-party software-as-a-service (Saas) apps and instead, they could "vibe code" new solutions or bespoke, AI-powered workflows. This idea is so pervasive that prior Claude integrations have on several recent occasions caused a major selloff in SaaS stocks after investors thought Claude could threaten the underlying companies and applications. Claude Marketplace seems to be pushing against that idea, suggesting current SaaS apps are still valuable and perhaps even more useful and appealing to enterprises with Claude integrated into them. The launch raises a broader question about how enterprises will choose to use Claude: directly through Anthropic’s own products and APIs, or through third-party applications that embed Claude for more specialized workflows.Tool integrationModel and chat platforms have always sought to offer integrations, aiming to cut the time users spend building their app versions. OpenAI added third-party apps into ChatGPT and launched a new App Directory in December 2025. This brought in offerings from companies such as Canva, Expedia and Figma that users can invoke by using "@" mentions while prompting on the chatbot. However, three months in, it’s unclear exactly how many people use ChatGPT Apps, particularly in enterprises — will Claude's Marketplace be able achieve more success here, given rising enterprise adoption of Claude and Anthropic products? ChatGPT’s focus in its integrated apps was on retail and individual consumer-focused tasks rather than the enterprise more broadly, but the company has also tried to appeal to that market with new plugins for ChatGPT released alongside its new GPT-5.4 this week.Other AI tool marketplaces have also cropped up. Lightning AI launched an AI Hub last year following similar moves from AWS and Hugging Face. Many AI marketplaces, such as Salesforce's, focus on surfacing AI agents that may already have the capabilities customers need. How does Anthropic's solution stand out from these? Asked for comment a spokesperson responded:"Claude is a model — it reasons, writes, analyzes, and codes. But Harvey isn't just Claude with a legal prompt. It's a purpose-built platform built for how legal teams actually work — with the domain expertise, workflow integrations, compliance infrastructure, and institutional knowledge that enterprises require. Same with Rogo for finance, Snowflake for enterprise data, or GitLab for software development. These partners have spent years building the product layer on top of Claude that makes it useful for specific industries and workflows.That's actually the point. Thousands of businesses use Claude to power their products — and the best ones have built something Claude alone can't replicate. Claude Marketplace isn't Anthropic trying to replace those products. It's Anthropic investing in them — making it easier for enterprises to access the best Claude-powered tools without managing a separate procurement process for each one. Claude is the intelligence layer. Our partners are the product."Native vs appEnterprise users adapted their Claude or ChatGPT platforms to recognize preferences, connect to their data sources and retain context. So much of how people use enterprise AI these days focuses on customizability, on making the system work for their needs. Platforms like OpenClaw also allowed people to set up autonomous agents that can have full access to their computers to complete tasks and execute workflows. In other words, Claude and other platforms can already do much of the work that these new third-party Marketplace tools enable — provided they have the right context and data. However, third-party tools and integrations allow enterprise users to avoid doing the work themselves and instead invoke an existing tool to handle it. For those whose businesses are built around specific, tool-based workflows, the Marketplace may be exactly the right AI integration for them. In addition, there's also a good chance that enterprises already paying for Claude may now take advantage of the new Marketplace to explore third-party tools and services they wouldn't have otherwise. While it’s still unclear what Claude Marketplace would look like in action, it’s possible that, with these tools, enterprises could use Claude as an orchestrator, where the platform acts as a command center that taps the right tool and accesses the right context without constantly prompting. Observers noted that Claude Marketplace offers enterprises a way to “pre-approve” apps, bypassing the often long and cautious approval process. Some people noted that Anthropic’s move tracks with how many businesses will want to work directly with the platforms without requiring users to move to their separate offerings. Anthropic's biggest challenge with Claude Marketplace, however, is adoption. Many of the partners for its launch already have enterprise customers who deploy their tools through an API or already connect via MCP or other protocols for context. Some users may have already vibe-coded apps that tap into these integrations. It's now a matter of enterprise users showing they want to use these new tools within their Claude workflows.
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What's old is new: the command line — the original, clunky non-graphical interface for interacting with and controlling PCs, where the user just typed in raw commands in code — has become one of the most important interfaces in agentic AI.That shift has been driven in part by the rise of coding-native tools such as Claude Code and Kilo CLI, which have helped establish a model where AI agents do not just answer questions in chat windows but execute real tasks through a shared, scriptable interface already familiar to developers — and which can still be found on virtually all PCs. For developers, the appeal is practical: the CLI is inspectable, composable and easier to control than a patchwork of custom app integrations.Now, Google Workspace — the umbrella term for Google's suite of enterprise cloud apps including Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin — is moving into that pattern with a new CLI that lets them access these applications and the data within them directly, without relying on third-party connectors.The project, googleworkspace/cli, describes itself as “one CLI for all of Google Workspace — built for humans and AI agents,” with structured JSON output and agent-oriented workflows included.In an X post yesterday, Google Cloud director Addy Osmani introduced the Google Workspace CLI as “built for humans and agents,” adding that it covers “Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API.” While not officially supported by Google, other posts cast the release as a broader turning point for automation and agent access to enterprise productivity software. Now, instead of having to set up third-party connectors like Zapier to access data and use AI agents to automate work across the Google Workspace suite of apps, enterprise developers (or indie devs and users, for that matter) can easily install the open source (Apache 2.0) Google Workspace CLI from Github and begin setting up automated agentic workflows directly in terminal, asking their AI model to sort email, respond, edit docs and files, and more.Why the CLI model is gaining tractionFor enterprise developers, the importance of the release is not that Google suddenly made Workspace programmable. Workspace APIs have long been available. What changes here is the interface.Instead of forcing teams to build and maintain separate wrappers around individual APIs, the CLI offers a unified command surface with structured output. Installation is straightforward — npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli — and the repo says the package includes prebuilt binaries, with releases also available through GitHub.The repo also says gws reads Google’s Discovery Service at runtime and dynamically builds its command surface, allowing new Workspace API methods to appear without waiting for a manually maintained static tool definition to catch up. For teams building agents or internal automation, that is a meaningful operational advantage. It reduces glue code, lowers maintenance overhead and makes Workspace easier to treat as a programmable runtime rather than a collection of separate SaaS applications.What developers and enterprises actually getThe CLI is designed for both direct human use and agent-driven workflows. For developers working in the terminal, the README highlights features such as per-resource help, dry-run previews, schema inspection and auto-pagination. For agents, the value is clearer still: structured JSON output, reusable commands and built-in skills that let models interact with Workspace data and actions without a custom integration layer.That creates immediate utility for internal enterprise workflows. Teams can use the tool to list Drive files, create spreadsheets, inspect request and response schemas, send Chat messages and paginate through large result sets from the terminal. The README also says the repo ships more than 100 agent skills, including helpers and curated recipes for Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar and Sheets.That matters because Workspace remains one of the most common systems of record for day-to-day business work. Email, calendars, internal docs, spreadsheets and shared files are often where operational context lives. A CLI that exposes those surfaces through a common, agent-friendly interface makes it easier to build assistants that retrieve information, trigger actions and automate repetitive processes with less bespoke plumbing.The important caveat: visible, but not officially supportedThe social-media response has been enthusiastic, but enterprises should read the repo carefully before treating the project as a formal Google platform commitment.The README explicitly says: “This is not an officially supported Google product”. It also says the project is under active development and warns users to expect breaking changes as it moves toward v1.0.That does not diminish the technical relevance of the release. It does, however, shape how enterprise teams should think about adoption. Today, this looks more like a promising developer tool with strong momentum than a production platform that large organizations should standardize on immediately.This is a cleaner interface, not a governance bypassThe other key point is that the CLI does not bypass the underlying controls that govern Workspace access.The documentation says users still need a Google Cloud project for OAuth credentials and a Google account with Workspace access. It also outlines multiple authentication patterns for local development, CI and service accounts, along with instructions for enabling APIs and handling setup issues.For enterprises, that is the right way to interpret the tool. It is not magic access to Gmail, Docs or Sheets. It is a more usable abstraction over the same permissions, scopes and admin controls companies already manage.Not a rejection of MCP, but a broader agent interface strategySome of the early commentary around the tool frames it as a cleaner alternative to Model Context Protocol (MCP)-heavy setups, arguing that CLI-driven execution can avoid wasting context window on large tool definitions. There is some logic to that argument, especially for agent systems that can call shell commands directly and parse JSON responses.But the repo itself presents a more nuanced picture. It includes a Gemini CLI extension that gives Gemini agents access to gws commands and Workspace agent skills after terminal authentication. It also includes an MCP server mode through gws mcp, exposing Workspace APIs as structured tools for MCP-compatible clients including Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI and VS Code.The strategic takeaway is not that Google Workspace is choosing CLI instead of MCP. It is that the CLI is emerging as the base interface, with MCP available where it makes sense.What enterprises should do nowThe right near-term move for enterprises is not broad rollout. It is targeted evaluation.Developer productivity, platform engineering and IT automation teams should test the tool in a sandboxed Workspace environment and identify a narrow set of high-friction use cases where a CLI-first approach could reduce integration work. File discovery, spreadsheet updates, document generation, calendar operations and internal reporting are natural starting points.Security and identity teams should review authentication patterns early and determine how tightly permissions, scopes and service-account usage can be constrained and monitored. AI platform teams, meanwhile, should compare direct CLI execution against MCP-based approaches in real workflows, focusing on reliability, prompt overhead and operational simplicity.The broader trend is clear. As agentic software matures, the command line is becoming a common control plane for both developers and AI systems. Google Workspace’s new CLI does not change enterprise automation overnight. But it does make one of the most widely used productivity stacks easier to access through the interface that agent builders increasingly prefer.
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Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is among the most damaging pests affecting soybean crops around the world, with current management strategies relying primarily on a very narrow set of resistant soybean varieties, along with crop rotation and chemical nematicides. Now, researchers at the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, part of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, in Brookings, South Dakota, report new evidence that the key to stronger protection may lie not just in plant genetics or chemicals but in the soil microorganisms surrounding the roots.
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At some point we will all regret the "I did my own research" and "don't trust the media" stances.We certainly need more-professional media but something about social media broke everything to do with the consumption of information and we are headed towards a dark place because of it. The algo amplifies the worst stuff and leaves us grasping for verifiable hard news. That's particularly true now as everyone tries to figure out what's actually happening in Iran.Aside from the headline, Goolsbee's speech focuses on themes like central bank independence, which he says is critically important. He also said that everyone on the Fed takes the job very seriously and that the Federated structure of the central bank has worked well. All that said, those assumptions will be put to a stern test in the months ahead. US inflation is sure to rise if oil stays up here and that should really rule out Fed rate cuts. Of course, some of the Fed will argue that's a one-off factor but with tariffs, it's now a two-off and then you add in healthcare inflation and it's a three-off. At some point, that argument just doesn't work as the public continues to pay 3% more than they did last year.The Fed has missed its inflation target in every year this decade and oil alone at these levels will mean that it will do so again in 2026.So while Goolsbee laments declining trust in institutions, he voted for rate cuts and has contributed to the failure of the Fed to meet its inflation mandate. Ultimately, the 'trust in institutions' argument goes back to whether or not people did their jobs. Whether it was lying about weapons of mass destruction or transitory inflation, you can't really cry about a wake-up call for institutions. Unfortunately, the response seems to be more propaganda rather than higher standards and more-professional leadership. This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.
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In studies of the proton, nuclear physicists attempt to match predictions from theory with results from experiments to enable understanding of the proton's internal structure. But such work has long been a challenge due to uncertainties that exist within each research method. Now, a new method that uses so-called "window" observables may allow theory/experiment comparisons that are clearer and more precise.
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University have successfully grown and harvested the first-ever crop of chickpeas in simulated "moon dirt."
Launching in 2027, a new NASA space instrument with ties to the University of Colorado Boulder will begin orbiting Earth to track the amount of energy that's leaving the planet daily.
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As the U.S. plans to return to the moon with the upcoming Artemis II mission, a question endures: What will future lunar explorers eat? According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, the answer might be chickpeas.
The use of cryo-EM not only expands the range of therapeutic targets and advanced therapies for structure-based methods but also can help pharmaceutical companies get drugs to clinics more quickly.The post Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center in Bay Area Opened by Thermo Fisher Scientific appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.
The Breakdown: Super Odometry helps robots keep their sense of direction when smoke, darkness or dust block their cameras. The system allows robots to rely on internal motion sensors when they can’t see clearly. In real-world tests, it kept robots moving safely through tough conditions like stairs, low light and smoke. *** When a drone [...]The post Keeping Robots Moving in Extreme Environments appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University.
The Trump administration's efforts to change the way history is told and science is described at federal parks, museums, landmarks, and historic sites are facing a grassroots backlash.
For decades, space has served as humanity’s most demanding testing laboratory, where only the most resilient technologies survive the vacuum, radiation and temperature extremes beyond Earth’s protective embrace. Today, we stand at an inflection point where artificial intelligence is poised to fundamentally transform how we explore, understand and operate in space. But making AI-powered space [...]The post Unlocking AI in space: the case for greater industry and space agency collaboration appeared first on SpaceNews.
These astrophotography camera accessories are worth adding to your setup in 2026.
Researchers have used brain imaging to show how memories can be reactivated in the brain without them reaching conscious awareness, showing that these memories persist even when we think they have been forgotten. Scientists from the University of Nottingham's School of Psychology used Magnetoencephalography (MEG) to show how our brains reactivate these memories even when we can't recall them, suggesting that the brain remembers even if we don't. The results have been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years, one that will allow
A research team composed of plant virologists from the Plant Virus Department at Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, the Italian National Research Council and BASF-Nunhems Italy, has recently published the findings of a scientific collaboration on investigating the occurrence of resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in tomato and pepper fields. The results, which prove for the first time the emergence of double resistance-breaking strains (D-RB) of TSWV in agricultural settings, have been published in Virology.
The Trump administration this week announced a new effort to help lower the cost of electricity produced by major technology companies building and maintaining data centers.
In 2009, a scandal was exposed at a cemetery just outside of Chicago. Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were accused of exhuming old graves, dumping the remains elsewhere on the cemetery grounds, and reselling the burial plots. When the case went to trial in 2015, one key piece of evidence was a tiny clump of moss.
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Botanists say the plant ‘is a little bit freaky.’The post Moss helped nab notorious grave-robbers appeared first on Popular Science.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a partner, have produced the largest and most detailed image ever made of the Milky Way's center, revealing the region's hidden chemistry and complex web of gas filaments
A four-foot-tall machine just completed a grueling autonomous trek in sub-zero temperatures. Here is how this breakthrough could change the future.
Ludwig Cancer Research is proud to announce that Director of the Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Xin Lu and the Institute's CEO and Scientific Director Chi Van Dang are co-recipients of a 2026 Cancer Grand Challenges award as members of the ATLAS (for Antibody Tracking for Long-term Avoidance and Surveillance) team.
Google will open an AI centre in Berlin on Thursday, the latest sign of Europe’s deepening reliance on US firms in cutting edge technologies despite the continent’s stated aim to catch up with its rivals. Germany’s ministry for digital affairs told AFP the centre will bring together cloud computing and data infrastructure, “AI development” operations [...]The post Google to open German centre for ‘AI development’ appeared first on Digital Journal.
In collaboration with the startup company Cauth AI, faculty and students at Binghamton University, State University of New York have developed My Music My Choice (MMMC), a digital safeguard that empowers artists by protecting their songs from generative AI cloning.
Allosteric Bioscience, Inc. is utilizing Genetics, Genomics, Systems Biology, Quantum Computing, Advanced Proprietary
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years.
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.
Applications are now open for early-career scientists to serve on the FASEB Board and Policy Committee, providing representation and insight at the highest levels of federation leadership.
Oscar-nominated animated film “Arco” tells the story of a young boy in a future where humanity lives in harmony with nature, far from the robots and artificial intelligence shaping our present. For first-time director Ugo Bienvenu, who drew the whole film by hand, there was never any chance he would resort to using AI. “That’s [...]The post Sci-fi without AI: Oscar nominated ‘Arco’ director prefers human touch appeared first on Digital Journal.
NASA's Hubble telescope detects possible 'dark galaxy' KSL.comAstronomers discover galaxy made of 99% dark matter CNNNew 'Dark Galaxy' Identified as NASA Says It’s Nearly Invisible and Made Up of 99% Dark Matter People.comDid Hubble’s new “dark galaxy” kill modified gravity? Big Think“Ghost Galaxy” Made of 99% Dark Matter Discovered 300 Million Light Years Away SciTechDaily
In December 2025, Check Point Research disclosed one of the most carefully engineered cloud-native malware frameworks ever studied — VoidLink. Unlike most threats that are ported from older Windows tools, VoidLink was built from scratch to target Linux-based cloud and container environments. Its design reflects a clear shift in how attackers now approach enterprise infrastructure, [...]The post VoidLink Malware Framework Attacking Kubernetes and AI Workloads appeared first on Cyber Security News.