Shaojie Bai

Class of 2017

Articles

  • SciTech Briefs

    Navigation system found to be almost as effective as sight

    SciTech | April 13, 2015
  • How Things Work: Email aids communication through elaborate system

    Email: it is something you use everyday. Marked by the well-known “@” symbol and sent and received instantaneously, it costs virtually nothing for a person in an apartment in Hong Kong to send his best wishes to his friend in New York. Email may not seem cool in the modern world, where it has become second nature, but it has changed how the world communicates since its creation in 1971. Email is s...

    SciTech | March 23, 2015
  • How Things Work: How money is printed

    How is money made today? Why does money have that distinctive “dollar smell”? Why does a $1 bill feel different from normal paper? Many people have pondered these questions, but few actually know the answers. Currency circulation is a critical part of a country’s economy. The U.S. dollar (USD), an internationally recognized currency, plays an especially important role in people’s daily lives. Yet ...

    SciTech | February 16, 2015
  • SciTech Briefs

    Shots of stem cells restore learning ability in rats

    Recently, researchers reported that stem cells may be able to heal long-term brain damage in rats blasted with radiation. While radiation therapy is very effective in lots of areas, such as treating cancer, it has also been proven to generate many side effects such as detriments to one’s learning ability.

    SciTech | February 9, 2015
  • Understanding the universe with the Theory of Everything

    Everything, in just one theory?

    SciTech | January 26, 2015