Academics
April 29, 2022 6:48 p.m.The Quad: Gene-editing tool CRISPR makes significant advancements from medicine to agriculture
This post was updated May 11 at 9:45 p.m.
After winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a means to edit genomes, CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer A.
By Joshua Jung
Academics
Feb. 3, 2022 5:51 p.m.The Quad: Lesser-known factors that can contribute to retention of material
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 7:22 p.m.
If you study underwater, take your test underwater. This was the discovery of a 1975 study from the British Journal of Psychology which concluded that divers who memorized words underwater recalled them better when tested underwater rather than on land.
By Joshua Jung
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