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A Letter from Our Founders on Magnifica Humanitas
Yesterday was a historic day to be in Rome. With the release of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, Pope Leo XIV has given the Church and the world a profound gift: a clear, urgent, and hopeful summons to remain “profoundly human” in an age when…
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What Survives the Fire: Artemis II and the Discipline Behind Real Engineering
When the Artemis II mission returned to Earth, the most important work had not yet been completed. From the outside, the defining moment seemed obvious. The Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by its crew, had traveled around the Moon, reentered Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 24,000 miles per hour, endured temperatures approaching 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and splashed…
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A Full Week in Castelli Romani
Campus Life A full week in Rome has a way of stretching time, not because more hours are added, but because each day seems to carry more weight. On Saturday, before the city had fully woken, students made their way into St. Peter’s Basilica. The streets were quiet, the air still carrying the cool of…
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Dark Matter: Still Missing, But Harder to Hide
Most of the universe is made of something we have never seen. Galaxies rotate too quickly, clusters hold together too tightly, and large-scale structures form in ways that visible matter alone cannot explain. The conclusion is unavoidable: there is more out there than meets the eye. This unseen component, called dark matter, outweighs ordinary matter…
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Celebrations and Adventures
Campus Life Update As students round out the third week of classes, they are still finding moments for joy, peace, and community. While campus begins to bloom, both with the beauty of new life and the struggle of our seasonal allergies, there has been no shortage of things to enjoy. This past weekend one of…
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From Forbidden Fruit to Future Food: The GMO Story
For most of human history, changing plants and animals required patience. Farmers selectively bred crops over generations, gradually shaping wheat, tomatoes, and livestock through small, inherited changes. In 1973, that process accelerated dramatically. Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen inserted a gene from one bacterium into another, creating the first genetically modified organism. For the first…
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One Culture, Many Faces: What a Cave in Israel Reveals About the First Human “Common World”
Rethinking Early Humanity What if the earliest humans were not divided the way we imagine? A recent study published in Nature Human Behavioursuggests something unexpected: long before civilization, different human groups may already have been participating in a shared cultural world. This shift in perspective begins in a cave in central Israel known as Tinshemet…
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Why There’s No “Perfect” Way to Sprint
What if the thing coaches have been trying to fix about their athletes’ running form was never actually broken? A new review published in Sports Medicine (January 2026) is challenging one of the most deeply held assumptions in track and field: that there is one ideal sprint technique every athlete should strive to replicate. The…
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Winter Term Finals Week
Campus Life Update Our students have made it through the winter term! This term has been packed with adventure and academic success, and now the students have made it to spring break. While some students will be traveling for break, many will be staying in Italy and will spend the Easter Triduum in Rome next…
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The Battery That Shouldn’t Work
Can a battery outperform the limits we thought were fundamental? For decades, energy systems were expected to scale in a straight line. This new research suggests that that assumption may be wrong. A new study published by Nature Portfolio gives us a working quantum battery that does something surprising. It delivers more power than classical…