I’m sure you’ve all heard about it – measles seems to be the buzz word of 2019. Whether it was someone in your classes, or just in the news, 1868 people have been diagnosed with measles in New Zealand this year. So what is measles, and why do we all care so much? Measles is …
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Artificial intelligence is one of the most intriguing developing fields in computer science – the desire to have computer systems which can think, learn, and function autonomously. The development of these systems starts to beg the question, however, what does it truly mean to be human. Is it intelligence? Well, computers could be considered much …
Within the last week, we have heard the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize Laureates. As I am studying Biomedical Science, one field of particular interest to me was the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This year, the prize was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. …
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