Cosmic Rays and Twisted Genes: How Space Messes with Astronaut DNA
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The Worst Injury in Sport
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How UofT’s Geoffrey Hinton Won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
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What can Climate Change Cause?
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Probiotic Power: Are Trendy Gut Healthy Foods Worth the Hype?
Three jars of Probiotic products are pictured in the bottomed left corner, with text in the top right corner reading “Are Trendy Health Foods Worth the Hype?” In the top left and bottom right corners are dark blue circles, with the top right one containing green bacteria labelled “Lactobacillus” and bottom left one containing purple bacteria labeled ” Bififobacterium.”
Sea Level
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Salmon Are Weirder Than You Might Think
The title is located in the centre of the image, reading “Salmon Are WEIRDER Than You Think.” A dark blue body of water containing a darker blue silhouette of an adult salmon occupies the top half of the image. In comparison, a lighter blue body of water containing a darker blue silhouette of a spawning adult salmon occupies the bottom half.
The Information Paradox
A black hole is positioned in the bottom left corner. Two squiggly lines point to the top right, coming out of the black hole’s accretion disk. An arrow points to them with the label “Hawking radiation.” A zoomed callout on the leftmost squiggly line features three question marks. Everything is set against a black background dotted with stars. Text reading “THE INFORMATION PARADOX” is located at the top of the image, aligned to the right, and “Black Holes or Cosmic Erasers?” is located directly underneath.
The Axiom of Choice in Action
Prisoners are facing side-ways and are standing in a single-file line where each person gets progressively smaller, each person wearing either a red or blue baseball cap. Those with a blue cap have a 0 label on their arm while those with a red cap have a 1. The background is black with ‘The Infinite Hat Problem and the Axiom of Choice’ written in white.
Does Coffee Slow the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease?
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