By Mackenzie Devereux The West Nile virus is most commonly transmitted by the Culex mosquito. Jeffrey Wang/ Junior Staff Artist Over the past few weeks, the buzz of mosquito wings has ...

By Michelle Yang Researchers from Mie University in Japan used the gene editing tool CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome 21, the copy responsible for Down syndrome. Courtesy of digitale.de via ...

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...

Every spring, Carnegie Mellon works in conjunction with the Special Olympics to host the Western Spring Sectional competition, a regional competition through which athletes can compete to qualify for ...

The NBA regular season wrapped up recently and that means it’s time for the most interesting basketball of the year: the NBA playoffs. Sure, March Madness is a lot of fun, and sure, I love watching ...

Pittsburgh startup noVRel won second place in Carnegie Mellon’s McGinnis Venture Competition, receiving $5,000. Courtesy of CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship via Youtube Students from the ...

Founded in 2016 by Elon Musk, Neuralink is a chip that allows you to control surrounding devices through just a simple thought. The chip has been implanted into the brains of quadriplegic patients who ...

Dr. Amanda Kraus explains everyday cases of ableism to the audience in Simmons Auditorium. Ire Alarape/ Photo Editor The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosted a talk ...

Nestled in the corner of an old warehouse in Bakery Square, the Carnegie Mellon Cloud Lab is one month away from becoming the nation’s first remote academic laboratory after six years in development.

Students in the Gordon Group are testing the DM-Chem model by looking at other foggy regions of the world, such as over the Atlantic Ocean. Stephen Makin / Staff Photographer The Tartan spoke to Dr.

We’re going back to the moon, and that, itself, is just a little bit terrifying. The lunar surface is not known for being conducive to easy travel and exploration. A number of missions sent there have ...

American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Kori Schake sat down with CMIST professor Audrey Kurth Cronin in Posner’s Grand Room for a discussion on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. The Carnegie Mellon ...