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Dr. Joe Incandela on the Higgs Boson
Dr. Joe Incandela is a professor of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. At CERN, he also leads the Compact Muon Solenoid team,...
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Taken for granted: Pure science research funding
The tension between material profit and intellectual fulfillment is at the core of most disagreements about education, its purpose, and its delivery. We like to...
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STEM graduates: What immigration reform means to you
As legislators in Washington battle over foreign policy and the federal budget, the most significant policy struggle of the spring and summer still looms in...
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Words of scientific wisdom
Inspiration can be sought in unlikely places. Observing the way work was carried out by the meat packers of Chicago motivated Henry Ford to develop...
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Drive or Be Driven: Google’s Driverless Car
It’s a sunny day in southern California, and Steve Mahan decides to go for a drive with a few friends. He jumps in the driver’s...
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Technophilic has a new look!
Dear Technophilic Magazine reader, Starting today, you will notice that we have redesigned our website. This redesign is the proof of our commitment to continuously...
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Q&A: Suzanne Fortier
Since 2006, Dr. Suzanne Fortier has served as the President of NSERC. After completing her BSc and PhD in crystallography at McGill University, she held...
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A smartphone buyer’s guide
Choosing your next smartphone can be an arduous task. From the ubiquity of the omnipresent iPhone, the plethora of choice offered by manufacturers like Samsung,...
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McGill IEEE Student Branch
Seventeen months ago, when a group of dedicated students embarked on a journey to reactivate the McGill IEEE Student Branch, we couldn’t imagine a better...
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A new “Super Earth” discovered by NASA
Project scientists at the Kepler Space Mission have found a total of 461 new planet candidates as of 2013 and one in particular, KOI-172.02, has...
