Naviya Singla SciTech Editor

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• Alexandra Dean’s Bombshell portrays Lamarr as inventor

  Alexandra Dean’s new movie, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, documents Hedy Lamar’s life as an inventor. The movie claims that her beauty often stood in the way of her getting credit for her inventions.

  SciTech | December 4, 2017
• CMU Design alum on CBS

  Kaeo Helder, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design’s alumnus works as an Industrial Designer for Candylab Toys. His work was featured on CBS News recently.

  SciTech | December 4, 2017
• New imaging technique helps diagnose sick corals

  On Nov. 6, Jamie M. Caldwell, a disease ecologist at Stanford University, and her colleagues published a paper titled “Intra-colony disease progression induces fragmentation of coral fluorescent pigments” in Scientific Reports. The paper describes a relatively new technique called live-imaging laser scanning confocal microscopy and its applications in better understanding the health of corals.
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  SciTech | November 20, 2017
• SciTech Briefs

  IBM announces testing phase of 50 qubit computer

  SciTech | November 13, 2017
• Dietrich College’s unique approach to behavioral economics drives change

  “In order to do good economics, you have to keep in mind that people are human,” said Richard Thaler, the winner of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences according to an article in The New York Times. That sentence quite succinctly describes what lies at the heart of behavioral economics.

  SciTech | November 13, 2017