World Ocean Day
World Ocean Day is on June 8! On World Ocean Day, people all over the world come together to celebrate and protect the oceans of our planet. Because of human-caused climate change, oceans are facing big challenges. Pollution like plastic trash and oil …
New Research Uncovers Link Between Social Media and Dissociation
On May 3rd, 2022, researchers from the University of Washington revealed results from a study entitled, “I Don’t Even Remember What I Read”: How Design Influences Dissociation on Social Media. The focus of the study was normative dissociation. Normativ …
World Environment Day 2022
Get ready! June 5, 2022 is World Environment Day! It is a day dedicated to spreading worldwide awareness and encouraging action to protect our environment. Environmental organizations and people all over the world will be celebrating the day by hosting …
BeBot: New eco-friendly robot to clean beaches
Vivien Chen 5/21/22 Pollution is a serious problem on beaches. Many coastlines are littered with plastic bags, cigarette butts, water bottles, and more. This waste can choke seabirds, contaminate the water, and harm marine animals. People have been lo …
Deposit Return Schemes Can Benefit the Environment
Deposit return schemes: you buy your delicious beverage, drink it, and return the bottle to the store in exchange for some money! In addition to saving money and encouraging you to return to the store, these deposit return schemes can also help the env …
Salamanders glide like skydivers
In the forests of northwestern California, there lives a species of salamander called the “wandering” salamander. These tan, mottled salamanders have a special ability: they can control their falls by gliding like a skydiver. These wandering salamande …
Astronomers find trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discovered a hidden trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. This trove of black holes had been previously overlooked, making this finding a key to our understanding …
Preparing for Exams
Image Credit With AP exams going on and finals around the corner, here are 5 helpful tips on how to prepare for your exams! Develop a schedule Studying ahead of time is super important! Develop a realistic study schedule with specific time slots and go …
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
The month of May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – a month for celebrating the history and contributions of the 22 million Asian Americans and 1.6 million Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Americans currently living in the Unit …
Top 10 Tech Trends In 2022
Digital change is constantly occurring, but even more so after the unexpected switch to remote working and schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The interest in digital communications and innovations skyrocketed due to the sudden need for a contactle …
National Space Day
May 7th is International Space Day, a day for getting kids interested in the cosmos! It originally started as “Space Day” in 1977 by the aerospace company, Lockheed Martin, as a one-time event, but it quickly grew into an annual holiday, having its nam …
Earth Day 2022
By Vivien Chen Today is Earth Day, an annual day to celebrate our planet and help the environment. Earth Day takes place every year on April 22, with the first Earth Day being celebrated in 1970. People from all over the world come together to spread a …
Neptune is Cooler Than We Thought
Scientists are constantly learning about the other planets in our solar system. It’s not something that many people think about, but other planets have weather phenomena that’s just as dramatic and diverse as ours, if not more! Recently, researchers ju …
Mental Health in Science
Mental Health in Science By Amanda Aber Written on 4/27/22 There are many competitive career fields that may result in depression and anxiety, but STEM fields have increasingly become more competitive in the last few years, making depression and anxiet …
Drinking Water Week: The Benefits of Drinking Water
Drinking Water Week was started more than 40 years ago by the American Water Works Association to spread information about how vital water is to our daily lives. According to the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the average r …
Brain Implant Enables Man to Communicate Again
A 34-year-old man trapped in a pseudocoma was given an experimental brain implant that successfully allowed him to communicate with his family and doctors (Science Alert). A pseudocoma, otherwise known as “locked-in syndrome,” is a condition in which a …
Tumors partially destroyed with sound waves don’t come back
A study at the University of Michigan was conducted using a relatively new noninvasive technique that claims to get rid of cancerous liver tumors called histotripsy. The study revealed that the sound technology used in histotripsy was able to successfu …
World Water Day
How clean is the water that you use? Water is the world’s most precious resource, but not everyone has equal access to safe water. World Water Day aims to raise awareness of the 2.2 billion people currently living without access to clean water. This da …
Brain Awareness Week
What is Brain Awareness Week? Brain Awareness Week strives to promote brain science and research to people around the world. Many schools, medical facilities, and organizations across the globe participate every year. It takes place annually on the thi …
Eye Imaging May Be the Key to Better Automated Vehicles
Optical Coherence Tomography is a technology developed in the 90’s which can be found in the offices of eye doctors. However, engineers believe it may hold the key to improving the “vision” of self-driving technology and other autonomous systems (Scien …
Autism Awareness Month
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is estimated to affect one in 68 children. It’s a diagnosis that wasn’t well-understood or extensively researched until the late 20th century (massgeneral). ASD affects the way a person communicates, behaves, and interact …
Urban Heat Island Effect
The “urban heat island effect” is a phenomenon that affects cities all around the world. It refers to the way cities trap heat, making their temperatures warmer than the surrounding areas. The city then becomes an “urban heat island.” The Environmental …
Former Football Player Strives to Increase Diversity in STEM
The number of students of color in STEM fields has been surprisingly low for a quite a while now. According to recent federal data, only 7 percent of people who earn STEM degrees are Black. This number didn’t change much from 2008 to 2018, but it did r …
Ozone
According to new findings published in Nature Climate Change, the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful UVB rays from the sun, may be responsible for a significant portion of the warming of ocean waters surrounding Antarctica in the latter half of the 190 …
