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On February 2, 2024, a name likely familiar to many of you appeared on the radio show Science Friday. Gabe Guo, a current undergraduate senior at Columbia University majoring in Computer Science, published a research paper titled “Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning” in the Science Advances Journal, January 12, 2024, alongside contributors Aniv Ray, Miles Izydorczak, Judah Goldfeder, Hod Lipson, and Wenyao Xu. In his research, it was found that, using AI analysis of fingerprints, there is a significant level of similarity between the prints on all of one individual’s fingers, contrary to prior belief.

By Armita Rohani Amidst rising tensions between arms-deals, nuclear warfare, and Ukraine’s outcome  during this tolling  war, communist leaders Kim Jong-Un and Putin plan to...

The universe is out to get you and every other living thing on this planet--breaking news or not, it’s true. Nature isn’t pretty, and the continent of Antarctica is the epitome of that idea. Bitingly cold with winds travelling at 100 miles per hour? Sounds like a rather unpleasant vacation spot (or Canada), but as always, some pioneering species manage to call the barren ice desert home.

Elon Musk, known as Chief Executive Officer and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and co-founder of PayPal, spent one million dollars on a rare McLaren F1 but then proceeded to crash it, trying to impress Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal)—the story, which was shared through PandoDaily with Sarah Lacy, dates to the late 1990s. After Elon’s startup “Zip2” was sold to the computer manufacturer Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars, Musk decided it was time to spend some of his finances.

On April 8th, a total eclipse is coming to Buffalo, New York. 

King Charles III, after undergoing medical treatment for an enlarged prostate, has been diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace reports. The British Monarch, 75,  underwent a procedure to treat an enlarged prostate in January, where it was then discovered that he had cancer. The type of cancer has not yet been announced to the public, but it has been confirmed by a Royal source to not be prostate cancer.

Can we determine the shape of a drum by analyzing the sounds it produces? This has been a longstanding question in mathematics for the past 70 years. In 1954, George Polya, a renowned Hungarian-American mathematician,  proposed a conjecture suggesting a link between the vibration frequencies of certain geometric shapes, including rectangles, triangles, or disks, and their physical shapes.

For the first time in American history, the parents of a mass school shooter have been charged in their child’s case. In November of 2021, fifteen-year-old Ethan Crumbley fatally shot four fellow students at Oxford high school, wounding six more students and a teacher. His mother, Jennifer Crumbley, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Michigan jury on February 6, 2024. 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, once considered a leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, shocked his supporters on Sunday, January 21, 2024, by announcing the suspension of his campaign. In a video message posted on social media, DeSantis cited a lack of clear path to victory as the primary reason for his decision, emphasizing his commitment to not wasting volunteers’ time and resources.

Following the post-pandemic trend of everything digitizing, College Board's SAT exam has gone digital for the spring of 2024. Juniors taking the exam soon are likely already aware that they will be foregoing the pencil and paper for a laptop or tablet, but for the underclassmen planning out their high school careers and just in case you didn’t know, here’s a run down of the new exam.