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Author: Syed Masood

Blog / The Ins and Outs of Quantum Computing

March 11, 2025May 5, 2025 / Syed Masood /

The history, the current breakthroughs, and potential future of quantum computing.

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Blog / 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine: A Small World Revolution

October 15, 2024October 14, 2024 / Syed Masood /

Nature 1953, Watson and Crick publish “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” winning the race with researchers around the globe to first publish the structure…

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Blog / The Catastrophic Cost of Everyday Batteries

July 15, 2024August 19, 2024 / Syed Masood /

Lithium (Li) ion batteries. The source of everyday energy. While we live in a world filled with technologies that grow faster than we can imagine and with sights of a…

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Blog / Time for Exploration: Ignition of the Space Race

October 4, 2023October 17, 2023 / Syed Masood / 1

History about how the space race started, and the implications of the soviets being the first to get a satellite into space.

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Blog / Fusion: The Holy Grail of Science

July 26, 2023 / Syed Masood /

Looking behind the scenes of the recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion.

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Blog / AI Art: An Art or Artist’s Revolution

March 23, 2023March 29, 2023 / Syed Masood /

The Development, Implications, and Ethics of AI Art

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Blog / Deep Sea Invisibility

October 3, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Looking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin

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Blog / Building High on Shaking Grounds

July 14, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Reflecting the impacts and devastation imposed by earthquakes, and understanding techniques to build earthquake resistant structures.

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Blog / A Machine’s Revenge

March 24, 2022 / Syed Masood /

A critical moment in the development of artificial intelligence: how a computer program was able to defeat the World Chess Champion in 1997.

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Blog / New Age Space Race

October 18, 2021 / Syed Masood /

With the rise of space privatization comes an environmental cost that could eventually halt space exploration in its tracks.

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Blog / The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

August 12, 2021 / Syed Masood /

How does plastic end up in the ocean, and what is the negative impact on ocean ecology and marine life?

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Blog / Why be “Mad as a Hatter??”

April 13, 2021 / Syed Masood /

Once thought to be the elixir of life found in tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and Chinese Emperors, Quicksilver, also known as the element mercury, is in fact quite the opposite.…

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Blog / To Fish or not to Fish??

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 / Syed Masood / 1

Bringing attention to the issue of overfishing, specifically the determent of sharking finning.

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Blog / The Chemistry of Art Restoration

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

Examining the hidden chemistry of art restorations

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Blog / Master of Games: John Conway

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

Honoring the life of Dr. John Horton Conway who passed away due do COVID-19 this April.

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Blog / Global Pandemic 1918 Edition

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

I would like to show the comparison of the recent outbreaks of the coronavirus so the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. I want the reader to see the need of public health policy and the potential outcomes when its not implemented properly

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Blog / Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown

October 7, 2019October 14, 2019 / Syed Masood /

The impact of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tested national radiation safety again after Chernobyl.

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Blog / 30 Years Post Nuclear Meltdown

July 18, 2019July 25, 2019 / Syed Masood /

Pressure increasing, emergency sirens ringing, water in the cooling tanks superheating. 9:27:40 AM UTC April 26, 1986: a planned safety test was conducted to assess the cooling circulation system in…

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