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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics hosts hands-on activities, telescope tours and solar observations on Sunday afternoon at its “Cambridge Explores the Universe” event. PHOTO COURTESY CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL

“Cambridge Explores the Universe” inspires children with astronomy

Katie Camero April 27, 2017

Local astronomers asked children from the Cambridge community if they believed in aliens as they dropped smashed bananas, dish soap and rubbing alcohol into coffee filters, extracting the fruit’s...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Victoria Gregory and Gabe Alba are inventors of the Coffee Cookie, a circular device that heats up reusable coffee cups. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

MIT students attempt to solve problem of cold coffee

Katie Camero April 12, 2017

Andrew Garcia lifted the top of his Starbucks coffee cup and poured the remains in the trash, sighing as he sat back in his seat. “I can’t even sit for 20 minutes without my coffee getting cold,”...

Marilyn Charles speaks about trauma, identity and social justice on Saturday at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Experts encourage approaching social problems through psychoanalytic lens

Katie Camero April 6, 2017

Since the late 19th century, psychoanalysis has been a tool that leads victims of trauma to a refreshed state of self-discovery, and now psychoanalysts are focusing on societal factors that oppose...

Experts in science-related fields speak about gender equality in STEM Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIPEDIA

MIT Communications Forum discusses gender equality in STEM fields

Katie Camero March 16, 2017

Gender inequality has limited women’s ability to pursue a career in the sciences for years, resulting in fewer paper citations, less funding and fewer job opportunities for female scientists, according...

Panelists Zachary Bos, Heather Hughes and Hannah Larrabee introduce Trūbadour, a new poetry startup, at the Cambridge Innovation Center Friday night. PHOTO BY COLE SCHONEMAN/ DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Trūbadour startup attempts to bridge gap between poets, technology

Katie Camero March 2, 2017

An emerging poetry startup called Trūbadour is working to change the stereotypes and stigmas surrounding poetry as an archaic and inaccessible art, solving the many problems with poem submission,...

The Street Bio team speaks on Sunday about their invention Biota Beats, a record player that holds a petri dish of microbiota and turns it into sound. PHOTO BY KANKANIT WIRIYASAJJA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Street Bio develops Biota Beats, plays music from bacterial growth

Katie Camero February 9, 2017

The International Genetically Engineered Machine Street Bio team, a community lab of researchers and scientists, recently developed an award-winning record player called Biota Beats. It converts information...

Google Engineering Director Steve Vinter speaks about how art and technology affect education in “STEAM: Rocket Fuel for the Innovation Economy” on Jan. 27. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

STEAM talk explores relationship between art, science in education

Katie Camero February 2, 2017

STEM is an acronym concerning the numerical and experimental side of education, standing for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. However, art and design were added to make STEAM — a...

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