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

Image Credit 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, …

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

Image Credits 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 abl …

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

Image Credit 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 annual …

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 …

Scientific Questions Which Were Once Believed to be “Unsolvable:”

Today, it might seem silly for someone to say that a question will never be solved by science. Think of all the progress that has been made over the last couple of centuries! Do you think anyone from 1950 could’ve imagined we’d all carry tiny computers …

Efficient DNA Testing

For many years, DNA testing has been a hassle for those with genetic disorders. To most people, DNA testing is figuring out more about your ancestry. However, ancestry is just a small portion of DNA testing; for others it can help them better access a …

Eavesdropping Fabric

Since the beginning of mankind, clothing has been a way to cover our bodies of course. As the years progressed, clothing became much more than that. It turned into ways people could express their feelings. Although fashion continues to live on, a new t …

Facts About Bone Health

Osteoporosis is a condition that relates to bone density and affects an estimated 10 million adults over the age of 50 in the United States. The condition causes bones to become brittle over time as they become less and less dense, making them more lik …

STEM books for grades 3 to 6th

Having trouble getting your children interested in STEM subjects? Reading is one of the best ways to get young children to learn and incorporating STEM into their reading can help get them excited about STEM subjects. Luckily, there are so many books a …

Climate Change and the Russo-Ukrainian War

A negative effect from the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is that many countries are trying to replace their normal intake of oil and gas, which results in serious consequences for our environment. The problem at hand is that Russia is one of the largest …

Transforming Plastic Recycling

Plastics are one of the most useful and resilient materials in the world, which is why they are extensively used in various household products. However, their impressive durability is as much of a curse as it is a blessing. When thrown out, plastics ca …

A Comprehensive Guide to Parametric Equations

In mathematics, parametric equations describe a pair of quantities as explicit functions of independent variables regarded as “parameters.” They are most commonly used to define the coordinates of points that comprise a geometric artifact such as a cur …

An Algebraic and Geometric Approach to Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

In linear algebra, we are introduced to eigenvectors and eigenvalues. While eigenvectors are vectors with a direction immutable by a transformation, eigenvalues are associated with the physical quantity by which the eigenvector is scaled.  For the aver …

AP Calculus AB: Implicit Differentiation

As the Advanced Placement (AP) testing season nears this spring, it is important to familiarize ourselves with the content matter. According to College Board, differentiation: implicit, composite, and inverse functions will be 9-13% of the test score i …