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Pittsburgh Start-Up noVRel Transforms Neurosurgery Through Augmented Reality

Pittsburgh startup noVRel won second place in Carnegie Mellon’s McGinnis Venture Competition, receiving $5,000. Courtesy of CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship via Youtube Students from the ...
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New Research Sheds Light on In-Flight Turbulence

Predicting turbulence is incredibly difficult because it’s a classic example of a “chaotic system,” in which seemingly small changes lead to unpredictable outcomes. Owen Noble/ Design Editor Have you ...
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Recent study suggests increasing rates of cognitive disability as a public health issue

A new study finds younger Americans are more likely to develop cognitive disabilities and high stress levels. Ian Giles/Staffwriter. For many students at Carnegie Mellon, their entire lives — from ...
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CMU Cloud Lab to bring remote science into mainstream

Nestled in the corner of an old warehouse in Bakery Square, the Carnegie Mellon Cloud Lab is one month away from becoming the nation’s first remote academic laboratory after six years in development.
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Toward a New Era of Kidney Engineering

At every moment, your kidneys are working hard to keep you alive and healthy. Shannon Horning/ SciTech Editor While you are drinking, running, sleeping, or simply breathing, two loyal organs at the ...
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‘Wicked: For Good’ toes the line between good and great

Spoilers for “Wicked: For Good” ahead. Once again, I had the absolute delight of getting to experience the release of a “Wicked” movie on my birthday. After two consecutive years, I can’t even begin ...
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Starbucks barista ULP strike continues, workers show solidarity across Pittsburgh

On Nov. 13, over 1,000 Starbucks baristas launched an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike, citing the company’s history of union busting, repeated labor law violations, and its failure to finalize a ...
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Silence, systemic gaps, and a petition: CMU community pushes for mental health reform

CaPS is a university-operated mental health service for students. Editor’s note: This story includes conversations about suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 for the ...
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The history of CMU’s Nobel prize winners

Dr. Ada E. Yonath, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mellon College of Science in 1969, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her studies of the ribosome. “Ada Yonath at the Weizmann Institute of ...
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The winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel awards

The 2024 Ig Nobel awards were given out this month, recognizing some of the funnier contributions to science. The ceremony, which has been held annually since 1991, tends to highlight the sort of ...
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EdBoard: Let’s make CMU more like ‘Animal House’

What does it mean to be a student at Carnegie Mellon? Pulling all-nighters? Never leaving campus? A passion for bagpipes? This week, we set out to understand what exactly it means to #turntartan on ...
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NanoCas helps to unlock Mini-CRISPR, first march toward miniature gene editing

CRISPR-Cas9 is a repurposed gene editing tool that allows scientists to cut, replace, and insert pieces of DNA in precise regions along the strand. Courtesy of NIH Image Gallery via Wikimedia Commons ...