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Art by Malia Kuo. Have you ever wondered how scientists synthesize drugs? Everything, from the Advil you take to alleviate a headache to the Vitamin
Emily Shang
May 12, 2023
Art by Malia Kuo. Have you ever wondered how scientists synthesize drugs? Everything, from the Advil you take to alleviate a headache to the Vitamin
Images courtesy of CarDS Lab website. According to the CDC, one person dies every thirty-four seconds from cardiovascular disease in the United States. It is
Art by Kara Tao. Increased wildfires, heat, drought, and hurricanes are some of the devastating effects of climate change that continue to be seen across
Art by Evelyn Jiang. The human brain is constantly recoding itself. Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing, a form of RNA modification, occurs at more than one hundred
Art by Malia Kuo. Scientists learn more about the cell every day. From taking microscopic pictures to performing biochemical tests on pellets of harvested cells,
Image Courtesy of Flickr. Convolutional neural networks, or CNNs, are deep learning networks trained with millions of images. Designed to imitate primate brains, they proved
Image Courtesy of Flickr. While extinction is a natural phenomenon, human activity has accelerated the deterioration of ecosystems worldwide and driven an epidemic of species
Image Courtesy of Pixabay. The pandemic drastically altered the daily tasks of many adults who, in addition to their everyday professions, took on new responsibilities
Image Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. Have you ever read Facebook’s Terms of Service after downloading the app? Chances are, probably not. While we often mindlessly
Image Courtesy of iStock. There is a common misconception that all bacteria are bad bacteria. Perhaps this narrative is bolstered by the branding of disinfectants
Image Courtesy of Flickr. Next time you’re cruising at forty thousand feet in the air, think about how amazing it is that a few hundred