By Brooke Ingemi Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a part of everyday life, transforming how we learn, think, and communicate, while also raising deep questions about what the future will look like. Previously confined to computer science labs, AI now touches nearly every field, from art and law to environmental science and economics. As a…
It’s the first Friday afternoon of the fall semester at Amherst College, and the Science Center lobby is buzzing with activity. Students and faculty alike are meandering on multiple floors of the Science Center between over 140 colorful posters, driven by a thirst for learning that links the curious minds on campus. The presenters are…
It’s now been six years since the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration shocked the world with this first-ever image of a black hole. How did they make it happen, and what are they up to now?…
By Viktoria Leopold A thin stem rising out of the ground, supporting a translucent, ethereal and ghostly head like a decaying white rose. Tiny, salmon pink globes clustered on the face of a rotting log. A group of brown edges curled up like shriveled book pages. While these descriptions might evoke images of an alien…
By Nora Lowe On September 8, the Science Center was cleared of furniture and filled instead with student researchers. This year’s cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) participants presented more than 80 posters as the culmination of their multiweek experience of rigorous scientific inquiry across nine departments, as well as in collaboration with parties…