In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Fossils of armored fishes like this one, a phyllolepid placoderm, are known […]
Category: Science & Technology
Robots on the High Seas
What if it were possible to predict where a message in a bottle was going to end up? Removing the mysticism of that archetypal fate-guided, maritime missive could turn out to be a key to […]
Guiding Light: Can the Quality of Assisted-Living Home and Hospital Life be Improved With the Flick of a Switch?
Can you imagine a life without sunsets? Twenty-four hours of daylight? Perhaps – if you’re summering in the Arctic Circle. But as a relatively common occurrence in hospitals and group-living centers, it can disrupt sleep […]
From West Philly to East Africa: A Student Group With a Fresh Take on Outreach
On Jan. 21, people across the nation honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by taking time to serve others. The spirit of the day is observed year-round, however, by a Drexel student group […]
Environmental Science 101, Day 1: Get Stuck In Mud
Remember when intro courses meant big lecture halls and sweeping overviews of everything there is to know about a discipline? Not this time. Environmental Science 101 at Drexel began in the mud. Freshmen majoring in environmental […]
Can Urban Greening Protect the Northeast From the Next Hurricane Sandy?
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives pumped the brake pedal on passing a federal aid package for states affected by Hurricane Sandy, sending politicians from New York and New Jersey in to a frenzy […]
Will the World End Tomorrow? Drexel’s Mayan History Expert Says No
If you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet because you were counting on the apocalypse taking place on Friday, December 21, 2012 – as many people claim the Mayan calendar predicts – Drexel anthropologist Dr. […]
Passing of an innovator: Norman Joseph Woodland and the story behind the stripes
One of Drexel’s technological claims to fame, the barcode, recently celebrated its 60th birthday in October. Sadly, less than two months later, Norman Joseph Woodland, one of its co-creators, passed away at the age of 91. Woodland and his […]
A Monkey Movie with a Message
Bioko Island may be the last remaining place on Earth you could call a monkey paradise; its environment is one of the most densely populated with monkeys in all of Africa. Its landscape of lush […]
Moment of Impact?
Could a pit of sand in southern New Jersey be one of the most important sites for paleontology in the world? Dr. Ken Lacovara isn’t sure about that yet, but he’s working to figure it […]
