By Mackenzie Devereux The West Nile virus is most commonly transmitted by the Culex mosquito. Jeffrey Wang/ Junior Staff Artist Over the past few weeks, the buzz of mosquito wings has ...

By Michelle Yang Researchers from Mie University in Japan used the gene editing tool CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome 21, the copy responsible for Down syndrome. Courtesy of digitale.de via ...

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...

President Donald J. Trump visited Carnegie Mellon University on July 15, 2025, for the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, hosted by Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). Billed as a ...

The NBA regular season wrapped up recently and that means it’s time for the most interesting basketball of the year: the NBA playoffs. Sure, March Madness is a lot of fun, and sure, I love watching ...

Friends, gather ‘round the television, grab a buddy and a beer, and rejoice, for at long last that sacred and time-honored tradition is once more upon us — the NHL playoffs. To begin, however, let us ...

It’s that time of the week when I hurriedly go through my notes and wonder how Alcaraz can manifest drop shots out of thin air. Seriously, he has to be a wizard of some variety. Anyways, we’re getting ...

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a silly someone behind the scenes of a certain Carnegie Mellon Instagram meme account. I’m talking about the one and only @cmufunny account manager, who takes time ...

More baseball? Yes, you heard it here, folks. After so many weeks of hearing people constantly asking and asking (no one asked), I finally have another riveting baseball take for you all. My dear ...

The West opens with a marquee matchup as the young Houston Rockets take on the battle‑hardened Golden State Warriors. Houston’s core — headlined by Jalen Green (21.0 PPG) and DPOY contender Amen ...

An image of the New Shepard Capsule, the same capsule that carried celebrities Katy Perry and Gayle King. Courtesy of NASA Flight Opportunities via Wikimedia Commons In 1961, Alan Shepard became the ...

Beverage companies such as Olipop have been adding fibers to their products to help improve gut health. Courtesy of Brad via Unsplash In a world with a looming fear of bacteria and their aversive ...