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Ph.D. student Amy Wesolowski tracked the movement of Kenyans using cell phones to map the spread of malaria throughout the East African country. Above is an electron micrograph of a malarial sporozoite inside a mosquito.

Researchers use cell phone data to track down malaria

Ph.D. student Amy Wesolowski recently co-authored a paper describing her research using cell phone data to track the spread of malaria in Kenya

A character that lived in the second dimension, like a playing card, would view a three dimensional object, like a ball, as a circle.

How Things Work: The 10th dimension

String theory is a possible unified theory of everything, but it requires extra dimensions. What are these dimensions?

SciTech Briefs

SciTech briefs covers fabric that can be used to fight knockoffs, cancer-fighting compounds in red wine, vertical farming, and medication that affects the chemistry of the brain.

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