The National Institute of Mental Health describes occasional anxiety as “an expected part of life”. The small instances of rapid heartbeats, confusion, and head-spinning are symptoms everyone experiences when faced with a daunting task or experience. But when these symptoms evolve and become more frequent, occasional anxiety can turn into […]
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Did NASA Really Discover a Parallel Universe?
The internet has done it again. Today it abounds with stories from tabloids like the New York Post, Express and the Daily Star—mostly quoting each other—that major on claims that NASA scientists have evidence that could prove the existence of a parallel universe. It’s all way overblown and misrepresents what the research in question is about. […]
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Entertainment during COVID-19
As the COVID-19 disease has escalated to become an international pandemic, many students are obeying stay-at-home orders and spending their time in quarantine. This effort comes from the academic administration to protect students from the dangers of the virus. Now with an unexpected amount of free time, students are finding […]
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How Does Coronavirus Testing Work?
Even those following the rules of social distancing and continuing to wash their hands are at risk of catching the coronavirus. It is an extremely contagious disease that can be spread if even a small amount of the population refuses to take precautions, resulting in many countries being forced to […]
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The Mask Distribution Program in Taiwan
With prior experience of the 2003 SARS pandemic and the government’s flexible reactions, Taiwan has successfully created an effective Mask Distribution Program.
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Will Ocean Seabed Mining Delay a Coronavirus Cure?
The ocean remains relatively undiscovered, with only 5% explored. It has always been an intriguing field of study, but with the overarching problem of the coronavirus in modern society, ocean exploration and profitable mining projects are sporadically affecting research to end the pandemic once and for all, but to what […]
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Teens Rise Up To The Coronavirus
During these times of isolation, all groups of all types are rising up to take action. Teens, especially, have shown what they can accomplish against the Coronavirus. Among other things, they are fundraising, creating masks for health care workers and researching the virus itself. With the US leading the number […]
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The False Paradigms of Innovation
Innovation According to Fiction In the winter of 1865, in a stately room decorated from the floor to ceiling with paintings and paraphernalia observing the recently concluded Civil War, four men sat in armchairs by a raging fire. Their arguments were no less heated, for these grizzled men were debating […]
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Gattaca in Real Life: Gene Drives and CRISPR
Introduction to Gene Drives Is having a weighted die cheating in Yahtzee? If you could ensure that you’d always get a four-in-the-row, would you capitalize on the opportunity, even if it’s immoral? Anthony James of UC Irvine and his team of biologists have been toying with this dilemma. In Summer […]