Tag: Vanderbilt University

  • Nation & World

    Prospects clouded for finding life on the largest class of planets

    Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48.6 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere

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    planet is depicted as being largely covered with dark basalt plains.
  • Nation & World

    Season to remember comes to a halt

    Laurent Rivard had 20 points, but the 12th-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team fell in the second round of the NCAA tournament to No. 5 seed Vanderbilt by a score of 79-70 Thursday evening at University Arena.

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  • Nation & World

    Blood test for depression?

    The initial assessment of a blood test to help diagnose major depressive disorder indicates it may become a useful clinical tool.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

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