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A Look Back: NJIT's Unusual Explorations of Nature
From discovering dinosaur-era ants with metal horns on their head, to swapping the
NJIT's Vanessa Velez Awarded for Quarantine-Inspired Folk Artwork
NJIT Department of Humanities staff member Vanessa Velez has shown that not only is art her true calling, but it's a potent form of therapy, especially during the COVID-19 p
WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends.
Study of Asia's Hillstream Loaches Reveals Keys to Fish Family's Unusual Land-Walking Abilities
A new genetic and morphological study of South Asia’s hillstream loach (Balitoridae) family is shedding new light on
NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college.
Historic Science Fiction Offers Lessons for Living With Pandemics
Science fiction sometimes shows us the future, but really just shows us ourselves, asserts Associate Professor of Humanities and sci-fi aficionado Nancy Steffen-Fluhr.
She was teaching the 2014 novel Station Eleven, about a troupe of actors and musicians struggling for normalcy after a global pandemic kills most of the world's population, in spring 2020 right as COVID-19 formed in Asia, reached America and found its way to Newark.
New Fossil Discovery Shows How Ancient 'Hell Ants' Hunted with Killer Headgear
A fossil recently recovered from the age of the dinosaurs is giving scientists the most vivid picture yet of how one of the most enigmatic and fearsome groups of ants to exist once used their uncanny tusk-like mandibles and diverse horns to successfully hunt down victims for nearly 20 million years, before vanishing from the planet...
Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure – and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods.
The paper was published online by the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Researchers Offer Unprecedented Look Into 'Central Engine' Powering a Solar Flare
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept.