Technology
By Montserrat Tang-Holmberg ~ 3 minutes ~ The future of drinking water may hinge on a solution so small that it belongs in an Ant-Man movie, yet the technology behind it is anything but fantastical. Nanotechnologies—engineered structures less than 100 nanometers in diameter—are smaller than individual wavelengths of
Monthly STEM Recap
By Bela Koganti ~ 3 minutes ~ This summer, I hope you’ve gotten some much needed rest and a couple months without stress! As we ease back into the school year, I’m here to help you exchange your doomscrolling for reading about some of the coolest STEM from this summer!
Health
By Maggie Wright ~ 3 minutes ~ Organizing your junk drawer is a hassle. Everybody, whether they like it or not, has some sort of junk drawer in their house. It holds random things like flashlights, rubber bands, batteries, receipts from seven years ago, and what feels like an endless supply of
Mathematics
By Aashritha Shankar ~ 5 minutes ~ The moment you open social media, your For You page is waiting, eerily curated to show you everything you should want to see. Is your phone psychic? Many of us conflate this effect to the social media “algorithm,” but how exactly does that algorithm work,
Technology
By Annabel Hao ~ 7 minutes ~ When I see my “raw” self, I see beauty staring back at me, but it’s obsolete beauty that in today’s beauty standards labels me as merely average-looking. As a young Chinese woman, I learned this the hard way. Whenever I wear shorts,
Science
By Prisha Sagar ~ 6 minutes ~ What message would you send if you had the chance to represent all of humanity to the universe? In 1977, NASA launched the fundamental ideas of life into the vast universe. The universe is defined as the entirety of all existence; this includes every concept
Environment
By Aniela Coughlin ~ 5 minutes ~ EVs, or electric vehicles, are glorified as a “green” alternative to petrol-fueled cars, but their devastating effects on the environment are often glossed over. To understand the damaging effects that EVs impose on the Earth’s climate, we must look at the entire manufacturing
Health
By Alan Chen ~ 4 minutes ~ Let’s talk about the infamous Henry Beecher: As the story goes, while treating wounded soldiers during World War II, Mr. Beecher ran out of the analgesic drug morphine. To continue his operations, he allegedly told his patients that he was injecting them with morphine
Engineering
By Aravli Paliwal ~ 3 minutes ~ Word Bank Engineers – People who design, build, and improve things to solve problems. Weight – The force that pulls an object downward because of gravity. Gravity – The force that pulls objects toward Earth. Lift – The force that pushes an airplane upward into the sky. Thrust – The
Environment
By Emory Daniel ~ 3 minutes ~ What if someone told you that you were ingesting the plastic equivalent of a credit card every single week? According to the World Wildlife Fund this is the reality. The WWF commissioned a study that found we all consume about 2000 tiny pieces of plastic
Engineering
By Katherine Mao ~6 minutes If you haven’t heard already, NASA’s Artemis II mission is a historic 10-day crewed spaceflight that launched on April 1, 2026, and traveled around the moon. This mission marks the first time humans have traveled beyond low Earth orbit since 1972, and